2003-14 Cylinder with Rim Chip and Man Eagle

2003-14 Cylinder with Rim Chip and Man Eagle

This unsigned Hopi-Tewa Cylinder vase has two images of Sikyatki “man bird” design. The lip has a 2.5-inch chip that does not intrude on the painted image. Ed Wade (4/23/09) believes the vase was possibly made and painted by Annie Nampeyo in the late 1920s or early...
2003-13 Vase with Shard Design

2003-13 Vase with Shard Design

Although the painting and paint on this pot are not perfect, the spirit of this pot is fine. Vernida, the daughter of Harold, was trained by her grandmother Fannie. She is not of the corn clan, since her father (but not her mother) connects her to Nampeyo, her great...
2003-12 Jemez Poster Pain Rain God

2003-12 Jemez Poster Pain Rain God

Although this figure was probably made in the 1980s, such tourist pieces were made as early as the 1880s. Hayes & Blom (1996:157) suggest that pink clay figures (like 2003-12) were probably made in Jemez, while very similar figures from Tesuque are generally...