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Very Small Nampeyo Jar with Whirling Log Design by Nampeyo of Hano - C3776F
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Fri, Jul 8th 2016, 12:33pm
When Nampeyo of Hano was first making pottery, she was most likely making onlyutilitarian wares. That is what she had learned from her mother, White Corn -Kochaka, 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.