Utility Pots
Hopi rectangular ceremonial bowl, circa 1870s to early 20th century. This pot has been “used by (a) Hopi woman in her home to hold ceremonial items.” (Source comments by Richard Howard, from whom I purchased the bowl.) The bowl is unslipped yellow ware with an...
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Hopi seed pot with feather design, Jean Sahme. The design is an interpretation of the design used by “Old Lady” Nampeyo on a pot that in 1992 was in Richard Howard’s home. The Nampeyo pot that served as the model for pot 1992-10 appears in Robert Ashton (1976:29) and...
White-Slip Ware
Hopi jar, white kaolin slip with Sikyatki design by Joy Navasie, “Frog Woman.” Note that the four quadrants of the pot are painted with two designs, one more densely filling the surface than the other does. The pot was given by Navasie to Naomi Fredericks, the wife of...
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Hopi pot, bat wing design by James Garcia Nampeyo. Brother of Rayvin Nampeyo (1992-03) and Melda Garcia Nampeyo (2009-02), James was also raised and taught potting by his grandmother Fannie after his mother Leah died in 1974. James was 16 at the time of his Mother’s...
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Hopi low-shouldered bowl, Sikyatki design elements and mutton-fat finish by Marcella Kahe. As on 1989-01, Ms. Kahe has chosen to continue the design around the curve of the bowl onto the lower surface–an unusual pattern. I had spent a couple of hours visiting...
