Native American, Betty Nevakuku (Hopi, 20th Century) Award Winning Pottery Canteen CA 1986, #1691 SOLD

Native American, Betty Nevakuku (Hopi, 20th Century) Award Winning Pottery Canteen Ca 1986, #1691Description: #1691,Native American, Betty Nevakuku (Hopi, 20th Century) Award Winning Pottery Canteen Ca 1986, painted on belly with sharp winged elements; signed on back. Dimensions: height 5.5 in. x width 8.5 in.Condition: ExcellentProvenance: Included is a Third Place ribbon from the "Hopit Katsim Kiwa-At The Hopi Way Agricultural Fair (1986)“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 clays 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 some