2011-32 Cowboy Hat Ashtray

2011-32 Cowboy Hat Ashtray

This is the definitive tourist pot. Ashtrays for sale to tourists were a mainstay of the low-end Hopi pottery market from the turn of the century to at least the 1950s, but the cowboy hat motif makes this form the height of kitsch. Katharine Bartlett,...
2011-31 Small, Simple Pot

2011-31 Small, Simple Pot

Dextra is the most celebrated living Hopi-Tewa potter (Struever, 2001). This pot is perhaps the least impressive pot she ever made. Dextra began making pottery around 1967, when she was about 40 years old (Barsook 1974:36). In an interview with Marti Struever...
2011-30 Small Bowl with Monochromatic Rain Design

2011-30 Small Bowl with Monochromatic Rain Design

This small, shallow bowl is probably a pinch pot or perhaps made with a tabipi base and one coil of clay. The walls are quite thick. Evenly blushed, it was fired outdoors. The interior design is a traditional storm image with clouds, lightening emerging from their...
2011-29 Small Bowl with External Design

2011-29 Small Bowl with External Design

This small bowl is fairly thick with a monochromatic design on the exterior and is undecorated on its interior. The bowl has good blushing from its outdoor firing. The external design is fairly simple, consisting of a line around the bowl about 0.4” below the rim, a...