Hopi pottery

Hopi Polychrome Sikyatki Revival Pottery Bird Effigy Pitcher by Nampeyo

Hopi Pottery, Tewa Group, are best known for their pottery, especially the revival pottery of the ancient Sikyatki ruin near the base of First Mesa.

More than 65 of the finest examples of Hopi pottery will go on exhibit for the first time Saturday, September 16, 2017 when the “Canvas of Clay: Hopi Pottery Masterworks from The Allan ...

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Les Namingha (Hopi/Zuni), Kokosori spots jar, 2020.

Historic Hopi Low Profile Seed Style Black on Yellow Pottery Jar by Nampeyo

Nampeyo [Hopi-Tewa, 1859–1942], Hopi polychrome bowl. "Nampeyo was born in the village of Hano on First Mesa... [S]he learned potting from her grandmother, a Hopi potter from Walpi... Nampeyo's sense of freedom, design & appreciation of the shape & space of each vessel combined with her artistic abilities allowed her to create a form of pottery that is still carried on today." She is credited with starting the Sikyátki revival of Hopi pottery. –Robert Ashton, Jr., 1976

This polychrome seed jar was made by a Hopi Pueblo potter whose identity remains unknown because it is unsigned, and we are unable to offer an attribution. What we can say with certainty is that this is an outstanding example of early 1900s Hopi pottery.

Garnet had a long and productive career of pottery making and was a favorite of collectors of Hopi pottery. Her father was a Hopi and her mother a Tewa. She lived at the Tewa Village on First Mesa on the Hopi Reservation. She was an active potter from circa 1940 to circa 1981. She is best known and was fond of making plain red bowls and jars with triangular indentations around the rim as the sole decoration. Often, she made ladles to accompany her bowls. The Museum of Northern Arizona in…

A collection of clay pieces created by famed Hopi ceramacist Nampeyo (1859-1942). These pieces showcase her range of skill (from the tall coiled forms to the shallower bowls), as well as her common design motifs, often inspired by ancestral Hopi pottery design.