2024-05 Canteen bank
This collection contains 5 other pots by Nellie, who has a reputation of being an indifferent potter and painter. Occasionally one finds a superior example of her work (cf 2010-04) and pot 2024-05, described here, is one of these well-formed and painted examples....
2024-04 Corn vase
Corn is at the core of Hopi life and no pot in the collection makes this statement more directly than this vase. A few pots in this collection depict painted images of corn (1999-10, 2010-08 and 2012-07) and other plainware pots have repose corn cobs (2006-03,...
2024-03 Ellipsoid bowl with curvilinear avian design
The width of the bowl is 9.375 inches. The lowest height is 2.6875 inches. The large size of this bowl is unusual, as is its shape. To my eyes its curvilinear design is the most powerful ever developed by Nampeyo, Priscilla’s great grandmother. Size,...
