Hopi Polychrome Cylindrical Jar [SOLD}

Pauline Setalla married into the Frog Woman/Feather Woman family clan. It was reported by her son several years ago that she was in ill health and retired from making pottery.  We have not had an update on her health since that time.  She had 10 children, some of whom are potters carrying on her legacy.  She was raised on the Second Mesa village of Mishongnovi on the Hopi Reservation.  She learned pottery production techniques from her mother-in-law, Agnes Navasie, and her sister-in-law, Eunice Navasie.

All of Setalla's pottery was formed in the traditional coil technique from native clay and slipped with vegetal paints and painted in the traditional manner.  Firing was with sheep dung, a popular way at Hopi.  This Hopi cylinder was made in this traditional manner.

This large cylindrical jar features the image of a Long Hair Katsina face on opposing sides of the jar and a turtle and ears of corn on other opposing sides.  Another item, also by Pauline Setalla, is a large storage jar with similar decorations as this cylinder.  It is our item number C3309K.

Condition: structurally in original condition with some minor over-paint on brown color.

Provenance: from the collection of Katherine H. Rust whose collection was mostly amassed in the 1960s and 1970s so it is assumed that is the approximate period that these were made.

Recommended Reading:  Hopi-Tewa Pottery: 500 Artist Biographies by Gregory and Angie Schaaf