Hopi Pottery : Native American Hopi Pottery Jar, signed by Emma Naha #150 Sold Out

Hopi Pottery 150. Description: Beautiful fine intricate design polychrome pottery jar. Very good condition, minor surface scratches. Dimensions: 3-3/4" x 4-3/4" Date: Ca. 1980's. Emma Naha, active since 1970, black and red on orange seed jars, wedding vases, favorite designs are parrots and has been publishe in Bassman 1997. She is noted for making fine small seed jars with Sikyatki designs. Her clay firs to a warm orange hue. (Source Schaaf, Hopi-Tewa Pottery, 500 Artist Biographies) 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