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Very Large Hopi Pueblo Jar with Graceful Stylized Bird by Nampeyo of Hano - C3776D
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Jul 8th 2016, 12:42pm
When Nampeyo of Hano was first making pottery, she was most likely making only utilitarian wares. That is what she had learned from her mother, White Corn, who passed away sometime between 1901 and 1909. Nampeyo's mother and grandmother were her mentors. It was not until Nampeyo's husband Lesso was working with the excavation party at the prehistoric Hopi Sikyatki Pueblo ruins that Nampeyo was introduced to the magnificent prehistoric Sikyatki pottery shards that would influence her life's work and that of her descendants.