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Made of grey clay that fires beige, this plainware low bowl is decorated with three rows of impressed triangular design. Garnet Pavatea was known for using a can opener to create such impressions and, although she was a fine painter, this technique became her iconic...
Effigy
Bill Beaver fell in love with Navajo pottery when working at Chaco Canyon in the 1940s and Shonto Trading post in the 1950s. In 1960, he bought Sacred Mountain Trading Post 20 miles north of Flagstaff on Route 89. There, he began to promote Navajo pottery to the...
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Pueblo pottery is made by first pressing clay into a shallow dish-shaped base known as a puki in the Tewa language. Additional coils of clay are then laid on the edge of the puki and built up to form the sides of the vessel. Walter Hough (1915:78) describes Nampeyo...
Canteens
This canteen has a finely formed spout that is sloped slightly to the front—a characteristic of Nampeyo canteens (Struever 2001:108). The spout is quite thin, and although I cannot feel the walls of the canteen body directly, the lightness of the pot suggests that it...
Utility Pots
This pot was formed in a 16-coil basket used as a tabipi (puki) Coils of clay were then built up upon the rim of the puki, jutting out sharply from the puki edge to the maximum diameter of the pot and then narrowing toward the rim. These coils were flattened into a...
