Hopi Redware Pottery Tile with Bird Design [SOLD]

This pottery tile was made from clay from the First Mesa village Sichomovi, which lies between Hano Village and Walpi Village atop First Mesa.

Mark Tahbo (1958- ) Hopi - Tewa enjoys trying clay from various areas around the Hopi villages.  This clay is red in color.  Tahbo used a black design for the bird and outlined it in white (Kaolin).

Condition: new

Provenance: this Hopi Redware Pottery Tile with Bird Design is from the artist himself, Mark Tahbo

Recommended Reading:  America's Great Lost Expedition, The Thomas Keam Collection of Hopi Pottery from the Second Hemenway Expedition, 1890-1894 by Edwin Wade, et al.