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 very rare Gwen Setalla wedding vase formerly part of the Center for Indigenous Arts & Cultures collection. This is a true collector's piece - gallery and museum worthy - that we were lucky enough to acquire. It measures 6 inches tall by 4 inches wide. Your price $595 ~ Item #WV559. Please click here to see an enlargement. SOLD

At left is a coyote tile by Gwen measuring 5.75 inches tall by 3.5 inches wide. Your price $175 ~ Item #H205 SOLD

Gwen Setalla is considered a master potter who makes very thin wall pots with excellent painting. Her work is included in Dillingham’s Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery and Gregory Schaaf’s Hopi-Tewa Pottery.

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

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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 Click here to see an enlargement.

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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 in the old ways and creates her work in that spirit that joins the human spirit and Mother Earth as one. Her pots are true to that union and priced fairly for all to own.

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Elton Tewaguna Nampeyo is a member of the Corn Clan and has been an active Hopi-Tewa potter since 1970. He is a member of one of Hopi's most distinguished pottery families that includes his mother Elva, sisters Adelle Lalo Nampeyo (above), Miriam Tewaguna Nampeyo and Neva Polacca Choyou Nampeyo. Elton's work is included in in Dr. Gregory Schaaf's "Hopi-Tewa Pottery" and "Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery" by Rick Dillingham.

This eagle tail pot measures 3.5 inches tall by 4.5 inches wide. Your price $125 ~ Item #H182. SOLD

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