SPECIAL OFFER: Polychrome Hopi Piki Bowl by Paqua Naha (Frog Woman) [SOLD]

Special Offer: The owner has authorized us to reduce the asking price on this Polychrome Hopi Piki Bowl by Paqua Naha (Frog Woman) from $7500 TO $4500, a 40% reduction. This is a tremendous price reduction on this excellent large piki-style bowl by Paqua Naha, the original Frog Woman. This is an unbelievable bargain for an outstanding creation by one of the top Hopi potters of the 20th century.

Paqua Naha, whose first name translates to “frog,” is known as Frog Woman. She was the first to carry this name. After she passed away, her daughter, Joy Navasie, became Frog Woman. Paqua worked mostly in “black and red on yellow,” referring to black and red designs on a yellow unslipped pottery. It was she who developed the white pottery that is now the Frog Woman hallmark. She passed away about three years after developing this style and Joy has continued producing it ever since.

This large piki bowl is the size and shape of bowls, usually undecorated, made by the Hopi potters to hold the liquid piki mixture for making the famous piki bread. Piki is made by skimming one’s hand across the liquid mixture in the bowl, then lightly rubbing the hand across the incurving rim of the bowl to remove any excess liquid before sliding the hand across the hot piki stone.

This bowl features the incurving rim of an authentic piki bowl. The interior of the bowl is beautifully decorated with a stylized Hopi design featuring a square element in the bottom of the bowl from which two triangular designs spread out on opposing sides and volute elements on the opposite opposing sides.

The exterior of the bowl is stone polished, unslipped, natural Hopi clay fired to a velvety smooth finish with beautiful orange tinted fire clouds. Her typical frog hallmark is painted on the underside of the bowl.

Provenance: A private Santa Fe collection. This Polychrome Hopi Piki Bowl by Paqua Naha was shown in the exhibit BOWLS: A Pueblo Necessity December 15, 2006 until December 31, 2006 presented at adobe gallery Santa fe.