Kachina Design, Polik'Mana
This plate, made of yellow clay (fires red), has an image of Pahlik Mana drawn in black. Four small firing cracks extend from the edge near the lower part of the image. Candy (Candice James Kaye) is a talented young artist. The image of the Pahlik Mana is...
Folk Art Other Animal Design
This bowl, carefully but casually constructed in the folk art tradition, has a Sikyatki revival design and an animal face with a long, arrow-shaped tongue. Fewkes interprets the arrow tongue as representing lightning, but the meaning, though compelling, seems...
Fine-Line Migration Design
This pot features the Nampeyo family “migration pattern” design. Neither the form of the pot nor the painting is proficient: the edge of the pot is uneven, the painting (particularly the three “feathers” at the ends of the wings) is imprecise. The design is somewhat...
Bird Hanging from Sky Band Design
“Old Lady” Nampeyo’s pot (1993-04) provided the model for 2005-03. In March 2003, Holly Chervnsik visited Hopi to gather information for her master’s thesis. She carried with her an incomplete, black and white photocopied version of the website of this collection....
