Hopi Polychrome Jar with Lid [SOLD]

According to records of the Museum of Northern Arizona, Daisy Hooee Nampeyo signed her pottery with a leaf mark.  Since Daisy was named Tobacco Flower, it is our opinion that the leaf on this jar is a tobacco leaf.  The leaf illustrated in the museum’s data is not exactly like the one on this jar, however, she is the only one illustrated as having used a leaf mark, so we are making the attribution of this jar to her based on the museum’s data and our assumption that the leaf is that of the tobacco plant.

Daisy Hooee Nampeyo was the granddaughter of Nampeyo of Hano and the daughter of Willie and Annie Healing.  She was born into the Corn Clan of her mother but was named Tobacco Flower after the Tobacco Clan of her father.  The name, Daisy, was given to her by a field nurse at the government agency on First Mesa.  Although she was born at Hano, the family moved to a new village called Polacca at the base of First Mesa.

Daisy spent many of her formative years with her grandmother and learned how to make pottery at a very early age.  Like many starting potters, her early pottery was not the best but she had an excellent teacher in Nampeyo and soon began to create wonderful pieces and used designs from pottery shards she found at Sikyatki.

Condition: very fine condition

Provenance: from a gentleman from Scottsdale, Arizona

Recommended Reading: Daisy Hooee Nampeyo—the Story of an American Indian by Carol Fowler

Photo of Daisy Hooee Nampeyo courtesy of Rick Dillingham.