Hopi Pottery Jar : Native American Hopi Pottery Jar by Claudina Lomakema #74 Sold

Hopi Pottery Jar 74. Description: Ca. 1980's, Original design poly'chrome jar with black rim and stylized frog and avian forms. Good condition, some scratches/abrasions. 3-3/4" x 6". Claudina is Hopi, Sichomovi, and was active from 1970-1982, in black and red on yellow jars. Her work is at the Museum of northern Arizona and she has been published in Allen 1984: 1921: Gault 1991:15 A History of Pueblo Pottery: Pueblo pottery is made using a coiled technique that came into northern Arizona and New Mexico from the south, some 1500 years ago. In the four-corners region of the US, nineteen pueblos and villages have historically produced pottery. Although each of these pueblos use similar traditional methods of coiling, shaping, finishing and firing, the pottery from each is distinctive. Various clay's gathered from each pueblo's local sources produce pottery colors that range from buff to earthy yellows, oranges, and reds, as well as black. Fired pots are sometimes left plain and other time