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Nampeyo (1859 [1] – 1942) [2] was a Hopi-Tewa potter who lived on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Her Tewa name was also spelled Num-pa-yu , meaning "snake that does not bite". Her name is also cited as "Nung-beh-yong," Tewa for Sand Snake.
Pueblo pottery are ceramic objects ... Pueblo V Era Hopi jar by Nampeyo, c. 1880 ... Native American modern and contemporary art, and pueblo pottery and other "crafts ...
[4] [3] She is a great-granddaughter of potter, Nampeyo. [3] Priscilla Namingha's daughters also went on to become potters. [4] Namingha stated that she learned to create pottery by watching her mother work. [5] As a girl, she also learned pottery techniques from Nampeyo. [1] Namingha kept making pottery almost up to her death in 2008. [1]
The pottery is made of fine local clay found on the pueblo to create the distinctively thin-walled pottery. The pottery is made in white and black and polychrome colors. Designs are pressed into all-white pottery with a fingernail or tool. [17] Potters from Acoma Pueblo during the 1950s include Marie Z. Chino and Lucy M. Lewis.
Daisy Hooee Nampeyo (1906 or 1910 - 1994 or 1998) was a Hopi-Tewa potter. She studied at École des Beaux-Arts . Hooee taught pottery making on the Zuni reservation and helped preserve the traditional techniques she learned from her grandmother, Nampeyo .
Paqua Naha (c. 1890–1955), also known as "Frog Woman", was a Hopi-Tewa potter. She worked in the "black-and-red on yellow" style of pottery, which Nampeyo popularized as Sikyátki revival ware. She became well known as a potter by the 1920s and started using a frog hallmark to sign her works.
Migration pattern seed pot by Elva Nampeyo, c.1976. Elva Nampeyo was born 1926 in the Hopi-Tewa Corn Clan atop Hopi First Mesa, Arizona. [2] Her parents were Fannie Nampeyo and Vinton Polacca. [3] Her grandmother Nampeyo had led a revival of ancient traditional pottery and established a family tradition of pottery making. As a child Elva would ...
New Mexico Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts (2008) Tammy Garcia (born August 27, 1969, in Los Angeles, California) is a Santa Clara Pueblo sculptor and ceramic artist . Garcia translates Pueblo pottery forms and iconography into sculptures in bronze and other media.