2019-09 Small red clay canteen with complex bird image

2019-09 Small red clay canteen with complex bird image

Canteens

Height and width include spout and handles. The artist drew a circle, then filled it with a monochromatic bird.  The design incorporates contrary circular motifs, which enlivens what would otherwise be a rather staid image. Like the other pot in this collection by...
2019-08 Jar with two inverted bird images

2019-08 Jar with two inverted bird images

Folk Art Bird Design

This seedjar was once almost trash.  Now it is both a significant part of this collection and helps explain the uncertain history of another pot I bought 9 years ago (2010-20).  Together the two pots give us some insight into Nampeyo family history. The pot is signed...
2019-07 Navajo Yei Vase

2019-07 Navajo Yei Vase

Kachina Design

Some history: The Navajo migrated to what is now the southwestern USA from northwestern Canada and eastern Alaska about 100 years before Columbus “discovered” the Americas.  As nomadic people, they did not have a pottery-making tradition.  About 1700 CE a...
2019-06 Modern Sikyatki bird effigy pot

2019-06 Modern Sikyatki bird effigy pot

Effigy

The beak is 2″ long and the tail is 1.5″ long. This is a prehistoric Sikyatki polychrome effigy vessel of a macaw parrot.  Except… …Except it is was made about 30 years ago by a White man.  Other than that — its clay, form, paint,...