Hopi Seed Jar with Eagle Tail Design [SOLD]

Hopi Pueblo potter Adelle Lalo Nampeyo is a daughter of Elva Tewaguna Nampeyo (1926-1985) and granddaughter of Fannie Polacca Nampeyo (1900-1987).  Her sisters are Miriam Tewaguna and Neva Polacca and her brother is Elton Tewaguna.  Adelle credits her mother and grandmother for teaching her the techniques of making pottery and she uses designs traditional to the family, which are mostly designs from Sikyatki pottery that Nampeyo of Hano reintroduced a hundred years ago.

Adelle exercised a little artistic license in the design of this jar when she used the eagle tail design as the one of choice and then embellished it with some free-form elements of her choice.  Adelle is an accomplished potter and painter of designs.

Condition: original condition

Recommended Reading:  Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery by Rick Dillingham.  This book is currently not available from Adobe Gallery

Provenance: from the collection of a family from Palm Desert, California, who purchased it in 1996 from the artist