2007-17 Huge Olla with Eagle Tail Design and Swags

2007-17 Huge Olla with Eagle Tail Design and Swags

Eagle Tail Design

This huge Hopi-Tewa polychrome jar has a decorated rim and an eagle-tail design modified by the addition of elegant red swags between the curvilinear “feathers.” The pot is accurate both in size and in decoration to an “Old Lady” Nampeyo pot given on March 1, 1907 to...
2007-16 Effigy Vessel with Molded Human Face

2007-16 Effigy Vessel with Molded Human Face

Effigy

This asymmetric Hopi effigy vessel has a molded human face, black and red painted facial features, headband, and ornamentation. The chin is pressed from the inside; the ears, eyebrows, and nose are applied. The painting is careful and delicate. It is unsigned but...
2007-15 Low Bowl with Abstract Hopi Peacocks

2007-15 Low Bowl with Abstract Hopi Peacocks

Folk Art Bird Design

The bowl, which features two bird designs separated by panels of abstract decoration, is perfectly shaped and unusually low. As a result, the decoration forms a strongly horizontal band, which forces the viewer’s eye to sweep along. At first glance, the decorations...