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Pot

A white pot with a wide shoulder and a short, cylindrical neck. The exterior of the vessel is decorated with bands of designs, including black and red shapes and plain black bands.

A white pot with a wide shoulder and a short, cylindrical neck. The exterior of the vessel is decorated with bands of designs, including black and red shapes and plain black bands.

Culture Hopi
Culture Pueblo
Title Pot
Date Ca. 1900
Medium Clay and slip
Dimensions rim diameter: 5 5/16 in. (13.5 cm)
Object: 6 1/2 × 11 1/2 in. (16.5 × 29.2 cm)
Overall: 6 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. (16.5 x 29.2 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Henry R. Hope, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 61.85

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Historically ceramics were the domain of female artists among the Pueblo and Hopi peoples of the American southwest. The style of pottery seen here, known as Sikyatki-revival pottery, is credited to Nampeyo, a Tewa-Hopi artist who worked with the trader Thomas Keam and developed her work in part based upon objects excavated by Jesse Fewkes. During this period, at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, there was a raise in demand for Native American ceramics from those outside of the community. The Sikyatki-revival was so popular that there were Hopi women on all three mesas working in this style.


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