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Hopi Cylindrical Jar with Butterfly or Moth Designs by Grace Chapella - C3856B
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Dec 9th 2016, 1:16pm
Grace Chapella was born in the Tewa village of Hano at First Mesa on the Hopi Reservation in 1874, eight years before the Reservation was established as such, and before Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. She witnessed the first "horseless carriage" arrive on the Reservation and recalled how frightening it was. In 1927, she became the first person from the Hopi Reservation to fly in an airplane, going from Grand Canyon to Long Beach for a pottery demonstration.