Eagle Tail Design
This jar is signed “Nampeyo/Fannie” and marked “1942” in pen. Apparently, Nampeyo formed it and her daughter Fannie painted it. Nampeyo probably began potting when she was a teenager in the 1870s; her Sikyatki Revival style dates from the early 1880s. Her eldest...
Folk Art Bird Design
The extraordinary flat shape of this pot is very difficult to form and (perhaps) as a result, the pot cracked when fired. The crack runs from the lip to within three inches of the bottom. The Sikyatki bird designs seem inspired by illustrations in Fewkes (1973:66-67...
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The pot might be circa 1930s to 1950s, though this is just a guess. This pot has triangular bands of crosschecking below the rim and three avian designs below, which curve towards the bottom. The formation of the bowl is not particularly well done; the jar does not...
Eagle Tail Design
The clay body is made of a hard-to-work yellow clay called sikyatska, which, when fired, gives the pot an unusual orange-brown color. The pot has an extremely smooth finish and the black “eagle-feather” design is outlined in white (kaolin) clay. The pot was modeled...
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Pot 2007-07 incorporates four rows of dots in the design; the design on 2007-08 lacks these dots. Daisy’s Tewa name translates as “hotness of tobacco” and her early identification mark was the tobacco leaf, which appears on both pots. (See Stanislawski,1976:64). On...
