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This pot is well formed and decorated with a series of standard Hopi design elements repeated twice. Georgia Dewakuku Koopee is the mother of noted Hopi-Tewa potter Jacob Koopee.Georgia did not teach pottery making to her son and there is no visual similarity between...
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Les is the grandson of Rachel Namingha, Nampeyo’s granddaughter. His father, Emerson Namingha Jr., is the younger brother of Priscilla , Lillian, Ruth, Elanor and Dextra. (See the Artist List for pots by these sisters.) Emerson married a Zuni woman and Les grew...
Jeddito Ware
This pot was made (probably in the 1990s) by Anglo artist Michael Hawley, who signs his pottery “Chakoptewa,” Like ancient Sikyatki pottery, this bowl has an even color and a high-pitched ring when struck because it was fired with coal. (For a discussion of...
Kachina Design
Two round faces represent Tawa, the Hopi sun god; these are interspersed with designs of the Hopi rain cloud. A band of linear and stepped designs encircles the top of the pot, which is white-slipped in the Zuni style and is made of clay from Zuni. Daisy also signed...
Folk Art Bird Design
The parade of three flying creatures is not evenly spaced, nor are they identical. This is a spirited, folk-art pot that makes me smile. Patricia, the younger sister of Juanita Healing (see the Artist List), was born on St. Patrick’s Day in 1919, and she learned to...
