#nampeyo

“Nampeyo- Famous Hopi potter”

ph: Frashers Foto , Pomona, California

Seed Jar with Sikyatki Motifs, Nampeyo, 1895, Art Institute of Chicago: Arts of the Americas

Since historical records have been kept, Pueblo potters have been almost exclusively women. There is every reason to expect that this has always been true. Nampeyo became the most famous potter who revived Hopi ceramic art around the turn of the 20th century. Drawing upon archaeological Sikyatki shapes, colors, and motifs, Nampeyo created her own inventive designs, continuing the Pueblo tradition of resynthesis and renewal. Today her descendants Dextra Quotskuyva Nampeyo and Fannie Nampeyo carry on the tradition, along with many other excellent potters throughout the Pueblo world. Laura T. Magnuson and Mary Louise Stevenson endowments Size: 17.8 × 40.6 cm (7 × 16 in.) Medium: Ceramic and pigment

Seed Jar, Nampeyo, c. 1900, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Art of Africa and the Americas

tan with two brown bands around center; hole top center surrounded by brown box-shape; symmetrical brown and blue designs on each side of box-shape Size: 3 3/4 x 8 7/8 in. (9.53 x 22.54 cm) Medium: Clay, pigments

Jar by Nampeyo, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Ralph T. Coe Collection, Gift of Ralph T. Coe Foundation for the Arts, 2011 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Ceramic