2002 | First People Pots

2002-07 Broad-Shouldered Seedpot with Sikyatki Hand Design

Broad-shouldered seed pot with a central design of a hand with dragon flies, geometric designs, migration/water swirls, red and black dots and stippling, finely-patterned fire blushing,, firing burn on the bottom by Dee Setalla. Human hand designs are a common symbol...

2002-06 Butterfly Seedpot

Folk Art Butterfly Design

Hopi-Tewa seed pot with four Butterflies and four “tail feather” designs composed of abstract symbols, dark red square framing opening, by Dorothy Ami. Dorothy is the niece (?) of Mark Tahbo who has been her instructor. The dark red color around the opening is an...

2002-05 Plainware Utility Bowl

Utility Pots

Little pottery is made at Third Mesa. This pot was probably made for home use and not for sale. Bessie Monongye was born on August 1, 1927 in Orabi and, as a small girl, was taught pottery and basket making by her grandmother Dalashongsie and now lives in her...

2002-04 Thin (Slip Cast?) Bowl with Sikyatki Birds

Folk Art Bird Design

Small Hopi-Tewa pot with Sikyatki bird design and frets, etc. This pot is carefully designed and painted and is curious: it is both traditional and perhaps radically different from the Sikyatki Revival tradition. Like many Hopi and Hopi-Tewa potters, Cheryl turned to...

2002-03 Shallow Dish with Superb Abstract Avian Design

Uncategorized, White-Slip Ware, White-slipped, Nampeyo

The design on the interior of this bowl is composed of elements that are typically used by Nampeyo; what is extraordinary is their simple, powerful configuration. Of the more than five dozen pots by Nampeyo in this collection, this bowl and two others (2014-07 and...

2002-07 Broad-Shouldered Seedpot with Sikyatki Hand Design

2002-06 Butterfly Seedpot

2002-05 Plainware Utility Bowl

2002-04 Thin (Slip Cast?) Bowl with Sikyatki Birds

2002-03 Shallow Dish with Superb Abstract Avian Design

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