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Hopi-Tewa Tall Cylindrical Jar by Jacob Koopee (Jake Nampeyo) - C3822
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Mon, Sep 19th 2016, 4:28pm
Early in his career, Jacob Koopee made traditional Hopi-Tewa pottery with traditional Nampeyo family design patterns. At that time, in the mid-1990s, he signed his pottery Jake Nampeyo. Later, he made traditional pottery vessel shapes but modernized the designs to those related to the Sikyatki-revival designs. He signed the later pieces Koopee.
This cylindrical jar is most certainly a traditional Hopi shape. Hopi-Tewa potters have made cylindrical vessels for over a hundred years. Koopee also applied a very traditional Sikyatki-revival migration pattern to the jar.