Hopi Seed Jar with Lizards and Corn Plants [SOLD]

Sylvia Naha (1951 - 1999) Feather Woman applied stippling to the white slip that covers the vessel, providing softer shading than the stark white associated with the Frog Woman/Feather Woman family of potters.  In this jar, she painted four elaborate lizards, each with exquisite body designs, separated by four modernist style corn plants. 

Sylvia Naha was the daughter of Archie and Helen Naha, and the granddaughter of Paqua Naha. Paqua was the first Frog Woman, and Helen, the first Feather Woman. After Helen Naha passed away, her daughter Sylvia inherited the title of Feather Woman. Sylvia passed away in August of 1999, at the age of 48. She signed her pottery with the feather hallmark of her mother and the added initial S to distinguish her work from that of her mother.

Condition: original condition

Provenance: this Hopi Seed Jar with Lizards and Corn Plants is from a gentleman in Albuquerque

Recommended Reading: Hopi-Tewa Pottery: 500 Artist Biographies by Gregory Schaaf