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An extraordinary jar with stopper, stylized polychromatic paintings of Kachina Manas with frets, and triangular bodies, isosceles triangles, and stepped pyramids, crosses, stippling and blushing from outdoor firing. An image of two isosceles triangles, which are...
Kachina Design
Hopi-Tewa pitcher with a simple polychromatic design of Kachina Mana faces and fine blushing from the firing. Priscilla, a daughter of Rachel and thus great-granddaughter of Nampeyo, was 63 years old when she made this pot in 1987. The pot was sold to me by Marsha...
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Pot with typical polychromatic Hopi-Tewa design elements and framing lines, one rim chip (1950s?). The pot is unsigned but believed to have been made by Cecelia Lessou. Cecelia, a Puma Indian, was the wife of Wesley Lesso, Nampeyo and Lesso’s fifth child. After...
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Round-bottomed (1920s to 1930s?) Hopi seed jar with two upper framing lines and two polychromatic avian decorative elements with spirals and dots. The construction of the two designs has a similar layout, but one is more carefully drawn than the other is. The rest of...
