Hopi Small Dish with Monochromatic Design [SOLD]

This very small dish by Rachel Namingha Nampeyo was probably made late in her life.  Potters who have spent their entire lives making pottery understandably do not want to quit making it later in life because they are so used to doing that all day long every day.  This is certainly understandable.  What most potters then do is make less significant pieces, something to keep their hands in the clay but nothing too taxing.  That is most likely the scenario for this small dish.

Rachel was a granddaughter of Nampeyo and Lesso, a daughter of Annie and Willie Healing, and mother of Priscilla and Dextra.  She was an expert potter who worked into her early 80s.  Her work was exhibited in 1994 at the Smithsonian’s New York branch in an exhibit “Creation’s Journey: Masterworks of Native American Identity and Belief.”  She has been published in numerous books, exhibits, and articles.

Condition: this Hopi Small Dish with Monochromatic Design is in very good condition

Provenance: from the inventory of Popovi Da’s Studio of Indian Arts at San Ildefonso, passed on to his granddaughter after The Studio was closed.

Recommended Reading: Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery by Rick Dillingham

Rachel Namingha Nampeyo photo courtesy of Rick Dillingham - Fourteen Families In Pueblo Pottery.