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Black-on-red with White Outlining Hopi Canteen by Annie Healing Nampeyo - C3683A

Category: Pottery | Posted by Adobe Gallery Team Member | Fri, Feb 12th 2016, 4:32pm

Annie Healing Nampeyo Pottery - C3683AThere is an exception in the case of two Hopi potters of note-Nampeyo of Hano and her eldest daughter Annie Healing Nampeyo. Nampeyo became famous not only because she was an outstanding artisan, but because the Fred Harvey Company housed her and her family in the Hopi House at the Grand Canyon in the summers of the early 1900s, where she demonstrated pottery making and sold her wares. It is well known that Annie collaborated with her mom in the early part of the century. She also made pottery herself, although precious little recognition was given to her in those early days.

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