Hopi Pottery : Beautiful Native American Hopi Pottery Jar by Tonita Nampeyo #77 sold

Hopi Pottery 77. Description: Beautiful more contemporary poly chrome seed pot with butterfly/moth figures. Very good condition. 4-5/8" x 6"'. Tonita stays true to her traditional roots, preferring to do everything the "old way." Her clay is still dug from deposits near her home. She still hand-coils and hand polishes every piece she does. Tonita remains loyal to many of the original Sikyatki ruins designs. Tonita is world-renown and appears in nearly every publication dealing with Hopi pottery. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the globe, and she has shown and placed at nearly every major venue throughout the Southwest. Her work appears in Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery by Rick Dillingham, The Art of the Hopi by Jerry Jacka, and Hopi-Tewa Pottery: 500 Artists Biographies by Gregory Schaff as well as others. (Source: Ancient Nations) A History of Pueblo Pottery: Pueblo pottery is made using a coiled technique that came into northern Arizona and New Mexico