Hopi Tewa Pottery

Hopi Tewa

Pueblo Pottery Maine presents traditional and contemporary pottery by Hopi artists including Tonita Hamilton Nampeyo, Burel Naha, Nona Naha, Stetson Setalla, Gwen Setalla, Dolly Joe Navasie, Donna Navasie Robertson, Marianne Navasie, Gloria Mahle, Clinton Nampeyo, Adelle Lalo Nampeyo, Reva Polacca Ami, Neva Polacca Choyou, Carla Claw Nampeyo, Roberta Youvella Silas, James Garcia Nampeyo, Vernida Polacca, Venora Silas, Dorothy Ami, Venora Silas, and Dawn Navasie

Gwen Setalla (“Aas-Ku-Mana” Mustard Juice Girl) is of the Bear Clan and has been an active potter since 1985. She was primarily taught by her mother Pauline Setalla with added lessons and experience from her godmother, Rainy Naha and members of the Navasie family.

At top is a beautiful Hopi canteen by Gwen - Superb in every way - great shape, painting - a very fine piece for any collector. From top

of the handle it measures 9.5 inches tall by 6.25 inches wide. This is an $1800 piece in any Santa Fe or Scottsdale gallery. Your price $1350 - Item #H163 Click here to see an enlargements.

At right is a thunderbird tile measuring 5.75 inches tall by 3.5 inches wide. Your price $175 ~ Item #H206

Gwen Setalla is considered a master potter who makes very thin wall pots with excellent painting. Her work is

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included in Dillingham’s Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery and Gregory Schaaf’s Hopi-Tewa Pottery.

At left is one of Gwen's most impressive creations: a tulip cup measuring 7.75 inches tall by 5.25 inches wide at the mouth.We don't use the term museum quality hardly at all but this is a very high quality piece that has been in our personal collection for 5 years. It is in perfect condition and we hate to part with it but our loss is your opportunity - really exquisite! Your price $1,500 ~ Item #H223. Click here to see an enlargement.

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Agnes Nahsonhoya is Hopi of the Bear Clan and has been an active potter since 1975 working beginning with white on natural clay pots. Today she works in the more traditional style using no slip the same as her grandmother did before her. Agnes uses colors which are derived from different clays, boiled down wild mustard for black, and various stones for producing white and red, and still uses handmade yucca brushes to apply them. She harvests the clay she uses from a source near her home and firmly believes that in order to show proper respect to the clay and Mother Earth it is necessary to continue in the old way which means digging the clay, hand-coiling, hand burnishing and painting, and firing outdoors using wood and manure. This pot is 6 inches tall by 4.5 inches wide. Your price $310 ~ #H169.

Agnes learned to make Hopi pottery in this traditional way from her mother Pauline Setalla, her aunt Eunice Navasie, and her grandmother Agnes Navasie. She won her first blue ribbon at the Northern Arizona Museum Hopi Show in 1992 for a rare pottery drum. She is quoted in Gregory Schaaf’s book “Hopi-Tewa Pottery” as saying “My teaching and heritage of pottery making continues today in the creations of my children. From the hands of my mother, to the dampness of the clay, to the small of the smoke when the pots are fired, I am connected to the clay.” Agnes Nahsonhoya is also included in Rick Dillingham’s book “Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery”

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Clinton Polacca Nampeyo created this beautiful pot utilizing the migration pattern that is the hallmark of the Nampeyo family.

This pot is made entirely by hand and uses the traditional techniques of pit firing, stone polishing and the use of organic paints processed from natural clays, minerals and cooked down vegetation. Clinton has used the Nampeyo family migration pattern on this piece which is well shaped, traditionally hand coiled and painted -a nice addition to any collection.

Clinton is the great grandson of Nampeyo and the grandson of Fannie Polacca Nampeyo. His parents are Harold and Alice Polacca. He is a master potter of the Kachina Clan who lives in the First Mesa Village of Polacca where he has been making pottery since 1975.

The pot at left bottom has the eagle tail motif and a wonderful shape with solid red rug top. Very nicely done and measuring 9 inches tall by 8.5 inches wide. Your price $625 ~ Item #H189

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Adelle Lalo Nampeyo is a granddaughter of Fannie Nampeyo and daughter of Elva Tewaguna Nampeyo. She has been making pottery since 1979. Most of her pottery is decorated with traditional Nampeyo family fine line designs or eagle tails. Her work is hand coiled, hand painted and traditionally fired using sheep dung which accounts for the variety in coloring. She firmly believes that she needs to continue making pottery the traditional way because of her strong spiritual beliefs. This pot, at right, is a batwing design measuring 3.75 inches tall by 4.5 inches wide. Your price $165 ~ Item #H185.

Adelle's work is included in Dr. Gregory Schaaf's "Hopi-Tewa Pottery", "Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery" by Rick Dillingham, and the Native American Resource Collection at the Heard Museum. She believes

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Jean Sahme (Nampeyo) is Hopi-Tewa of the Corn Clan from the village of Polacca. She has been an active potter since 1965 working with black and red on yellow jars, bowls, wedding and cylinder vases. She is the daughter of Priscilla Sahme and sister to Rachel, Nyla and Randy Sahme. Jean's work is included in Dr. Gregory Schaaf's "Hopi-Tewa Pottery", "Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery" by Rick Dillingham.

This is a beautiful piece by Jean with excellent shape, rich colors and well executed graphics. Both Jean and Rachel have been using their Native American names on the pots which explains why it is not signed with the old 'Jean Sahme' signature.

This pot measures 3.5 inches tall by 5 inches wide. Your price $625 ~ Item #H220.

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Iris Youvella Nampeyo is truly a next-generation matriarch of Hopi pottery. She is the daughter of the late Fannie Nampeyo, and grand-daughter to the legendary Sikyatki renaissance potter - Nampeyo, and the rest of her family pedigree reads like a Who's Who of Hopi pottery. Iris maintains a clean and classic approach to Hopi pottery making. Her natural colors lend themselves well to the look and feel which she sets out to achieve. There is nothing else quite like an Iris piece. The smooth and flowing lines of the corn stalk not only represent her skill as a delicate potter but her clan as well.

Iris spends many hours burnishing her pottery by hand in the traditional fashion - using a smooth polishing stone handed down for generations. She is very meticulous in her attention to detail. Every inch is carefully gone over to insure precise density and polish. Her cornstalk motif is her "trademark" design, and the vessel's non-uniform lip is unique to her pieces. Everything is naturally fired - outdoors in a sheep dung firing pit. Still she has mastered the ability of achieving an even and consistent coloration throughout.

Iris appears in nearly every major publication on Hopi pottery including "Hopi-Tewa Pottery: 500 Artists Biographies" by Gregory Schaaf (p. 107), "The Art of the Hopi" by Jerry and Lois Jacka (p. 121), "Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery" by Rick Dillingham (p. 25), and "The Legacy of a Master Potter: Nampeyo and Her Descendants" by Mary Ellen and Laurence Blair (pp. 148, 236). Bio courtesy of Ancient Nations

This pot measures 2.5 inches tall by 5.5 inches wide. Your price $595 ~ Item #H221.

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