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Small, broken, and glued, bowl 2020-14 is the fourth pot by Beatrice Nampeyo in this collection. Three of them are miniatures. As explained in the catalog entry for pot 2020-13, Beatrice was about 30 years old when she died in 1942. Not much is known about her life...
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This is a nicely done but –at first glance– is not an extraordinary miniature Tewa-Hopi pot. What makes it unusual is its maker: Beatrice Nampeyo. Mary Ellen and Laurence Blair published a genealogy chart (1999:262-263) indicating that Annie...
Folk Art Bird Design
This bird is part of a flock of folk birds that regularly adorn Hopi and Hopi-Tewa pottery, cf 1998-10, 2002-10, 2007-13 and 2008-05. Lorna’s tile is indistinguishable from the work of her mother, Sadie Adams, who for decades demonstrated pottery making and won...
White-Slip Ware
Rachael Sahmie 2021-21 This is a plain bowl with framing lines and a single, washed-out design. Yet the design is so powerful and unusual that, even in its imperfect state, it is an important example in Nampeyo’s oeuvre. This collection now has 63 pots that...
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The maker, Ida Sahmie, is Dine (Navajo), as indicated on the reverse of the tile, and married Andrew Sahmie, son of Priscilla Sahmie. Ida was taught pottery making by her mother-on-law but has developed her own style of painting that reflects her heritage and is not...
