2020-13 Small Beatrice Nampeyo pot
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...
2020-12 Folk art bird tile
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...
2020-11 Faded Um-tok-ina serpent on imperfectly-slipped bowl
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...
