Ernest Moore (1935 -) Quanhoyeoma

Ernest Moore, who signs his work with his Hopi name Quanhoyeoma, spent most of his life living off the Hopi Reservation, returning to live in the village of Moenkopi as a senior citizen in 1998. That was the first year he started carving katsina dolls.  In 2003, he entered his work in the Heard Museum annual show and it won Best of Show, which then sold for $20,000 to the American Museum of Natural History in New York.  That’s an amazing feat for someone who left the Reservation at age 11 and did not start carving katsina dolls until age 63.