1991-10 Jar with Butterfly Design

1991-10 Jar with Butterfly Design

Tewa-Hopi yellow-ware vase, butterfly design, 1940 (?), by Grace Chapella (unsigned). According to Dawny Cromwell, Public Education Director of the museum shop, Rex Bollin (who was selling several Hopi pots at the Museum on consignment) said this pot (and the four...
1991-07 Navajo Jar with Rug-Design Opening

1991-07 Navajo Jar with Rug-Design Opening

Navajo polished, pinion-slip pot with “rug design” opening by Susie A. Williams, daughter of Rose Williams and sister of Alice Cling. (See Hartman (1987:77-80). A similar pot is in the Arizona State Museum collection, Tucson. The contrast in Navaho pottery styles...