HOPI AND NAVAJO

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     Karen was born on September 23, 1960. She is one of the finest young Hopi potters working today. She particularly likes using some of the older designs on her pots - the Polik Mana - (Butterfly Maiden) pottery shards, feathers, eagle tail feather skirt, clouds, and song birds. Karen works particularly hard on her outdoor firing techniques - aiming to have a certain warm glow with the use of fire clouds.
     One of our favorite designs by Karen is her SHARD pot. She paints with precision and accuracy. She has been working on this shape for us for several months. The jar is beautifully coiled. Notice the terrific red slip work on the inside of the opening. We continue to be so pleased with Karen's current work. As recognition for her fine traditional Hopi ware grows, so does her excellence in shaping and painting.

#HN181 - 5" high by 7" wide
Price: $2400

      Dorothy Ami - is one of the relatively new young Hopi potters working today. Her work is innovative in design, shape and clay colorations. Her fine line designs are carefully drawn and beautifully painted using a single strand of yucca and all natural pigments. Dorothy's cousin, Mark Tahbo, has been "mentoring" her - and her recent work has shown so much growth and change. Her painting is both clean and precise. Her pieces are thin walled, and the firing techniques show beautiful areas of blush.

#HN9730 - 9 1/2" high by 5" wide
Price: $1200

      Loren Ami has been an active potter since 1990. His grandmother was Eleanor Ami, and he was taught to make pottery by DEXTRA. He was raised in Santa Fe, away from Hopiland. During his senior year in high school, he and his mom moved back to Hopi. Loren paints with old, Sikyatki designs, and is especially known for his fine polychrome canteens, wedding vases, and bowls. The shape of this wedding vase is just right. Well proportioned, and beautifully painted, it is a lovely piece. Look at the use of fire clouding that he achieves in his firing. A warm glow surrounds the entire wedding vase.

#HN5711 - 9 3/4" high by 4" wide
Price: $1800

      This new bowl is so magnificently painted. The classic eagle tail design is interpreted by Loren in a masterful way. He is certainly one of the more precise painters working today. His firing techniques are fantastic - as a warm glow surrounds the entire bowl. The red slip painted on the opening of this bowl is terrific.

#HN7719 - 5" high by 6 3/4" wide
Price: $2400

     Preston’s Hopi name is Lomaiquilvaa--Carried in Beauty. This name was given to him after a relative had carried the sleeping boy home late at night following his initiation ceremony. How appropriate that name has become. The world outside the Hopi Pueblo knows him as Preston Duwyenie: artist, teacher, father, and friend. He is particularly kind and soft spoken. But he has much to say about his Culture and the influences of it on his work.
     Preston is an accomplished artist in several areas -- ceramics, metalwork, jewelry, and painting. His pottery often combines traditional techniques with contemporary shapes. Preston has said, "I want to establish cultural innovations offering alternatives in artistic expression with experimentation in various techniques and media."
      Preston is known for his excellence in making thin walled, symmetrical and well crafted plates and bowls. Here we have something new; a very large open mica bowl. There are four sterling silver ingots on all four sides. Set within the textured "whirling sands" motif, it is a beautiful light shade of orange.

#HN12724 - 6 1/4" high by 10 1/2" wide
Price: $2800 SOLD

     Here is a beautiful orange mica plate by Preston. Based on the "shifting sands" theme, he has embedded two silver ingots into the top part of the pattern. The back of the plate is fully polished with his signature hallmark.

#HN189 - 7 1/2" across
Price: $850 SOLD

      This open bowl and ladle set is so simple in appearance. Coiled well, polished beautifully, and so well fired, it is subtle and beautiful. The ladle fired a shade lighter than the bowl itself, and Larson was so pleased, as he feels it brings some contrast to the coloration of the overall effect.

#HN12723 - 4 1/2" high by 10 5.8" wide
Price: $800 for the set

     Bearing the Hopi name Koyemsi, which stands for the Hopi-Tewa mudhead clown, Steve Lucas has become one of the premier potters from the Nampeyo family. He consistently wins blue ribbons at the Santa Fe Indian Market, the Heard Museum Guild Fair and the Gallup Ceremonial. His work is made in the traditional style of his great-great grandmother, Nampeyo. He coils, pinches, scrapes, sands, and then fires outside. Steve uses vegetal paints, and is able to achieve beautifully deep, rich colors in his design work.
     Oh – what a fabulous LARGE bowl by Steve. A full 11” wide, the size of this piece lends itself to showcase the complexities of Steve’s paintings. An abstract polychrome creation, every stroke is perfect and meaningfully placed on the top and sides of this wonderful bowl. As much as we like the smaller examples of his work – when you can see a fully decorated – wide expanse of his painting – one can fully understand why he is considered to be one of the finest potters working in Hopi today. When you add the natural glow that results from outdoor firing, you are left with a marvelous piece of contemporary art.

#HN0907 - 5 1/2"' high by 11" wide
Price: $5500

     This is a particularly beautifully painted piece of pottery by Steve Lucas. The hues are so deep- reds, blacks, tans, combined with bold lines and modern flecking of colors. The stylized eagle tails and feathers create such movement around the plain polished bottom. There is a high polished glow with this piece, brought out by the careful and extensive stone polishing.

#HN11106 - 4 1/2" high by 6 1/2" wide
Price: $2200

      One of the things I admire so much about Steve�'s work is his ability to look at a bowl or a jar and design his painted elements so well to fit the form and shape.  Here he has depicted Prayer Feathers and Owls, in a simple but very beautiful way. The painting is precise, the colors are bright and clear, and the firing is really lovely. This is a very nice example of Steve�fs creative design work.

#HN12717 - 7 1/4" high by 6 1/4" wide
Price: $2400

      Steve remains one of the most talented potters and painters in Hopi. His senses of form, as well as designs are exemplary. His images always have a marvelous flow to them. Notice how he wraps the design elements of the eagle tail all around one side of the pot - and keeps part of his "canvas" plain polished. Steve's sense of proportion is great. The firing is fabulous - golden and orange hues. What a marvelous example of his work.

#HN1055 - 4 1/2" high by 7 1/2" wide
Price: $2700

      This is a great shape with a very narrow bottom, accentuated by a deep red slipped area banded in black, then wonderful bird imagery on the top with diamonds and other symbols. Along with the red slips, he also used some brown on this one (in the diamond areas) and it really works well. It has a beautiful sheen to it, so the painting jumps out in a bold style. Steve is a marvelous painter, so careful, and pristine,

#HN978 - 7" high by 8 1/2" wide
Price: $3200

     This is one of those bowls by Steve that is so "complete" in design and form. Because he has chosen to use the deep red slips on the top and bottom quadrants, the overall effect is one of cohesive, full, roundness. The blacks and red in linear patterns, have just the right balance with the stippled designs on the top. It is a lovely composition. ,

#HN1078- 4 3/4" high by 7 3/4" wide
Price: $2400

      Steve is marvelous when he paints a "simple" design. This bowl has a beautiful red bottom, and a panel of stylized bird imagery. Varying the painting with red and white slips, the precision with which he paints is of the highest quality.

#HN182- 7 " high by 7" wide
Price: $2650

     Sylvia Naha was the daughter of Helen and Archie Naha, and the granddaughter of Paqua Naha. Paqua was the first Frog Woman, and Helen, the first Feather Woman. Sylvia passed away in August of 1999, at the age of 48.  Helen's children signed their pottery with a feather, and their first initial when they were young, and now each has developed their own signature retaining the feather. Sylvia's signature remained the same: a feather, punctuated by the letter 'S'. Sylvia won many awards over the years.
     This bowl, which was in a private collection, is in perfect condition. It is such a great example if her work, as she has the classic lizard on the top with the cornstalk, and the black and white Awatovi swirl is on the bottom.

#HN7612 - 4 3/4" high by 5" wide
Price: $2200

     Rondina was born in Keams Canyon, Arizona and is a member of the Tewa Kachina/Parrot Clan. She has been a resident of Polacca, Arizona since her childhood. Never receiving any formal training in pottery making, she makes her pottery in the traditional way. She starts the process by collecting clay from down below the mesa, then sifts, strains, and dries the clay. Then she coils, dries, and sands the pottery. Then comes polishing, slipping, and painting. Finally she fires the pieces outside. Rondina still uses yucca plants to make her paint brushes. She is truly one of this country's most gifted potters. Her pots are undeniably her own - with a distinctive style of decoration.
     Rondina won BEST OF SHOW at INDIAN MARKET in 1986 and 1996 she gathers her clay near the ruined village of Awatovi, Arizona, and still makes her own paintbrushes from yucca plants. With them she applies incredibly intricate and delicate black, white, and red designs to backgrounds of white and orange buff. Her rows are so tightly packed with blocks of repeating patterns that her symbols create eye dazzling designs. This work is so demanding, and so unbelievably time consuming, that there are very few potters who even attempt to imitate this style. She really is one of our "master potters." "You must feel good, beginning when you dig the clay. It comes from Mother Nature and deserves respect."
     This new shape is a bit different from her open bowls. Adding a plain polished neck, giving the jar some height , the base of tight designs is even more accentuated against the plain top. Rondina works so hard to keep her designs as tight as possible. She is one of a kind !

#HN961 - 4 1/2" high by 4 1/2" wide
Price: $4800

      This is one of the largest, most magnificent shard pots we have ever had by Rondina, It is full, and round, and the detail work is exquisite. Even though it is very large, she kept her shard patterns so tight and small. The work around the rim is marvelous, and the varying tones of reds, burgundies, blacks and tans are great. Since the opening is only 3" wide, the pot is visually a complete work of precision. One of the most difficult tasks to achieve - polishing the full bowl all the way inside, is something she accomplished. This is a rare and wonderful work.

#HN574 - 5 1/2" high by 8" wide
Price: $11000 SOLD

     Darlene James Nampeyo has been making pottery since 1968 and is the daughter of Ruth James Nampeyo. She is the grand- daughter of Rachel Nampeyo. She was taught and inspired by her grand- mother and Aunt Dextra Quotskuyva. Darlene is mentioned in Rick Dillingham book Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery. Like in most Hopi families, Darlene uses the techniques and style that was developed by the matriarch Nampeyo (Sikyatki Revival).
     This tall vase is such an interesting shape. There are flat sides, with old style red slipped and painted swirl designs on the separate panels, Darlene has put those in juxtaposition with more classic Hopi black and white patterns on the sides and top. It is an unusual, unique piece of traditional Hopi pottery.

#HN10710 - 10 1/4" high by 4" deep by 7" wide
Price: $2200

     Hisi Nampeyo was born in 1964 and is fourth generation descendant of the legendary NAMPEYO. Hisi is from Polacca, Arizona on First Mesa; her mother is Dextra Quotskuyva, one of the legendary living Hopi potters. Hisi has been actively making pottery since 1985 and has been winning awards since 1989. At the 1992 Santa Fe Indian Market, she won a FIRST PLACE and BEST OF CATEGORY.
    Hisi learned traditional pottery making from her mother and grandmother (Rachel Namingha) She carries on the family traditional designs, but adds her own unique ones as well. She uses all natural clays and pigments from the Hopi reservation, and her techniques include hand coiling, hand painting, and outdoor firing. Her red slips are from yellow Hopi clay that is mixed with water and applied to the surface of the pot. Hisi's work is represented in museums such as the Museum of Northern Arizona, and the Heard Museum in Phoenix. She can be found in many books including, Pottery by American Indian Women, Fourteen Families, Pueblo Pottery Families, Talking With the Clay, Hopi- Tewa Potters, and is prominently featured in The Art of the Hopi.
    This is a perfect example of a small Hisi seed bowl. The classic, Nampeyo designed piece flows with deep reds and black slips. This pot has a beautiful firing; a bit of orange shines through. Made in 1994, it would add to anybody's traditional Hopi collection.

#HN1079 - 3" high by 3 3/4" wide
Price: $650

     Charles was born in 1965, and is the great grand-son of Paqua Naha, and the grandson of Joy Navasie ("Frog Woman") Charles uses Sityatki decorations on his pots. This one is a terrific shape - with the classic design on the top of the bowl, and the beautiful plain polished elegance on the bottom, showing off the lustrous natural firing marks. And this time, he has painted his hallmark signature on the actual front of the pot - not on the bottom. It adds a special unique quality to the design.
      Charles is known for his tightly painted designs and thin walled pottery.  This bowl is a beautiful example of that work. Here he has eagle tail designs, painted with the traditional Hopi reds and blacks. The tails are combined with flowing and detailed geometrics providing quite a bit of movement to the piece.

#HN7518 - 6 " high by 6 1/2 " wide
Price: $900

     Dextra is the daughter of Rachel and Emerson Namingha. Her grandparents were Annie and Willie Healing and her Tewa Great-grandmother was Nampeyo. Dextra began making pottery in 1967. She has been working on her pottery ever since, and is now recognized as the "living matriarch of Hopi pottery." Her mother, Rachel, watched and supervised her. Dextra was recognized as a "Master" in 1977 in an article in the American Indian Art Magazine. The article stated that "The graceful shapes bear a rich complexity of designs and the craftsmanship is flawless,"
      This new bowl is absolutely beautiful. There are four well spaced butterfly images on the top. Two of them are resting on flower - a very lovely design. She has polished her pot with the deep red slip, and painted the black areas with bee-weed. The firing on this new piece turned out particularly well. It is golden, and has a slight orange cast to it.  It is a beautiful shape and the design works well on this open bowl. One can see why Dextra has been such an instrumental figure in the world of traditional Hopi-Tewa pottery.

#HN564 - 3 1/2" high by 6" wide
Price: $6500 SOLD

     Here is another "new look" by Dextra. Very simple, very elegant, she has painted four simple dragonflies on the top of the open bowl. Dextra is so talented, in that she can recreate classic Nampeyo designs, and then create her very own unique and stylized work. We are so happy to showcase her newest pots.

#HN565 - 2 3/4" high by 4 3/4" wide
Price: $4450

     The process of making pottery is a time-honored tradition among the Hopi-Tewa potters of First Mesa, Arizona. The clay is dug from the earth and the impurities are filtered out. Then the bowl is formed in the traditional method of layering coil upon coil. Mark Tahbo does not use any additional clay slip to polish his bowls, but re-wets the body of the piece and then uses a stone to burnish it. This is the process that creates the high shine on his work. Their bowls are fired in a traditional outdoor firing, using sheep manure and old pottery shards as part of the process. Mark�fs work is deeply influenced by his Hopi-Tewa ancestry. However, he is an individualist artist at heart. Mark has so much creativity and innovative spirit reflected in his art work. He is the great-grandson of noted potter Grace Chapella. Today, they Mark is among the leaders of the Hopi-Tewa potters.
     Depicting one of Mark's favorite Hopi tales, he has painted this open bowl with the design that features a bird that has lost his head into the pot. It is the story of "magical bird" - so the arrangement of the feathers is very important. Each feather represents something spiritual as it relates to the bird - so no two feathers have the same design; each one is different.  Mark spent so much time working on the colors and details on this imaginative bowl.

#HN576 - 5 1/2" high by 6 1/2" wide
Price: $1600 SOLD

     Harrison Begay, Jr. is a Navajo artist. He was born in Keams Canyon, Arizona in 1961. He grew up in Arizona, and Utah, and now resides in New Mexico. He went to college at a small school in Utah and then quickly turned to art as a full time career. He is a self-taught potter, who received lots of help from friends and other artists. Actually, Harrison started as a painter, using oils and acrylics, and then decided to turn all his attention and efforts to pottery.
     Harrison has become known for his deep, clean carvings in both black and red ware. He uses cross-cultural symbols, such as petroglyphs, animal imagery, and geometric designs. He often uses Navajo symbols directly stemming from his own cultural heritage.
     Since 1999 he has won so many awards at the Santa Fe Indian Market, Eight Northern Market, and the Heard Museum Show. It seems that with each passing year, he has become better known, and has earned great respect as a talented potter. We have worked with him since the very first day we started this business, and it is always a pleasure!
      This large rounded bowl is so full and has so much depth to it. The carvings are particularly deep and clean, and there is an excellent balance between the polished areas, and the matte areas.  The major bear in the front is carved well, with a deep heart line. It is encased with matte areas that also show a heart line. Another panel is a polished eternal spiral, A second bear shows on another side of the pot, and then the final area is more geometric with arrowheads and contemporary carved design work. Both top and bottom are completely polished, with a very high sheen. This is a marvelous example of Harrison's black polished work, at his best.

#HN9716 - 8" wide by 8" high
Price: $3200 SOLD

     Harrison is known for his deep carved bears, and here he mixes them so nicely with various geometric designs. The bears on this piece really fill the rounded areas of the pot well. Using Harrison's trademark balance between polished and matte symbols, this open bowl turned out beautifully. There is a lovely symmetry to the piece with a plain polished band on the top and bottom.

#HN11136 - 5 1/2 " high by 5 1/2" wide
Price: $825

     Alice Cling is the daughter of Rose Williams, and began to make pottery in 1966 after returning to Shonto after her high school graduation. She soon thereafter created her own unique style, using simplicity of form, and achieving a soft surface sheen. These traits have become hallmarks of her work. She has perfected this burnishing technique through much trial and error, using just the right amount of pitch in her work to produce this highly appealing result- her polished pottery almost looks like beautiful wood carvings! She sometimes experiments with texture by occasionally incising, or impressing, or adding appliquéd bands of clay. In 1978, one of her pieces was exhibited in the Vice-Presidential Mansion in Washington DC. Since then, she has won numerous awards at every Market and show that she has entered. We are pleased to work directly with Alice as she designs new and beautiful shaped traditional pitch coated Navajo pottery.
    This is a beautifully shaped vase we have acquired from Alice. The simplicity of the piece is what makes it so special - browns, reds, and blacks, all melding together

#HN12625 - 14" high by 8" wide
Price: $1650

      Susie Williams Crank has been making pottery in the traditional Navajo method for the last 12 years. She is the daughter of the legendary potter Rose Williams and sister of the well known contemporary pottery Alice Cling. Susie credits Alice as being her inspiration and teacher. In the last several months, Susie has worked incredibly hard on her polishing techniques - and as you can see by this new piece it is absolutely handsome. Like with Alice's pots - some people think they are actually made out of wood!

#HN9726 - 6 1/2" high by 6" wide
Price: $390 SOLD

      We just received this new grouping of clay turtle masks from Beverly. Each one is a little different, but they all look terrific alone, or in groupings. It is nice to have a decorative piece of art work - at such an affordable price - handmade by a Native artist.

HN2624 -
A) 4" wide by 6" high
Price: $45
B) 4" wide by 6" high
Price: $45
C) 4" wide by 6" high
Price: $45

      Samuel Manymules was born August 30, 1963 of the Bitterwater Clan for the Red Horse Nakai Dine Clan. He writes for us, "Unemployment is extremely high on the Navajo Nation. Through my adult life, I have been employed sporadically among many trades: I once made jewelry for the late Herbert Taylor, drove a tow truck for several years, and worked at an auto dealership. After dabbling in making pottery for over a decade, it is only very recently that I considered myself a potter, I am self-taught, At the moment, I consider myself more serious and engaged with my pottery.
      The vessels I make are of traditional natural materials. First, I gather moist pure clay from local riverbed sources, which is then dried three to four months in the sun. When dried, the resulting clumps are crushed, ground and sifted into fine powder. Temper is also gathered and processed; volcanic ash, silt, or pottery shards may be used. After hand mixing, the clay is set aside for curing. Finally, after many months of preparation, the clay mixture is ready for use. Firing is an all-day process. Cedar wood is used because it burns efficiently and high temperatures. Fire clouds happen by chance. When finished, debris, such as ash, is carefully removed. Refined pinion tree sap is then swabbed inside and out with a stick while the vessel cools. After the vessel cools, the pottery is polished with a cotton cloth to a high sheen."
      Samuel has won numerous awards since 2002, including a recent Judges' Choice Award at the 2008 Heard Museum. He has been awarded Blue and red ribbons at both the Santa Fe Indian Market, the Heard Museum Market, and in both 2005 and 2006 won Best of Pottery at the Southwest Museum Indian Marketplace. Samuel continues to work on his superb shapes and forms. His forms tend to be sophisticated and elegant. There is simplicity to his work that is so pleasing. This new vase is a variation of a swirl – with indented ribs and magnificent fire clouds.

#HN3815- 7 1/2" high by 5 1/2" wide
Price: $760 SOLD

      Here is a beautiful water jar created by Samuel. The brown and black tones are beautiful and earthy. Simple elegance!

#HN3816- 8" high by 8 1/2" wide
Price: $920 SOLD

    Ida Sahmie was born in 1960. Like many young Navajo girls, Ida Sahmie was taught to weave rugs by her mother and grandmother. But unlike most of those other girls, Ida grew up to be rather unconventional. She married a Hopi man, she learned to make pottery, and she graduated from the International Business College in Albuquerque, New Mexico as a microcomputer specialist.
     Ida was raised in the Pine Springs, Arizona area of the Navajo reservation. When she was 19 years old she married Andrew Sahmie, ofmHopi/Tewa descent. Andrew's mother is Priscilla Namingha, granddaughter ofmNampeyo, a name that is synonymous with Hopi pottery. For several years after her marriage, Ida watched her in-laws as they made pottery. Then one day she picked up some clay and began to form a small pot. "I smoothed and polished it just like they did," she says, "but I painted my own designs. And right away those little pots sold. I couldn't stop. People liked it."
    In 1986 Ida entered her first competition at the Navajo Craftsman Exhibition at the Museum of Northern Arizona, and won a blue ribbon for a beautiful jar with a Mother Earth - Father Sky design. That same year she also won a first place award at the Navajo Nation Fair. Since then she has received numerous awards for her pieces.
    Ida collects her clay from the Hopi Reservation, mixing it with a small amount of yellow clay so that it fires to a light tan color. Each pot is made by first coiling clay ropes into the shape desired, after which the sides are scraped until the coils are blended together. After the pot dries she brings it to a smooth finish, inside and out, by sanding and adding a coat of slip. Then she polishes the outside.
    Painting is the last thing she does before firing. Ida uses natural red and white earth pigments and black paint made from bee plant, painting her pottery with a yucca brush. Ida fires her pots outdoors in a wood and manure fueled oven. "My potteries are good because I do my own designs," Ida explains. "I think it's my designs that people like-the unique combination of Hopi and Navajo. In shows I like the tag to say Navajo, because that is what I am. But to me, my work is contemporary pottery.
     Ida's painting is changing, in that she uses new imagery. She includes snowcapped mountains, birds in flight, and shadowed figures. This new depiction of a daytime Yei Dance is both realistic and contemporary at the same time.

#HN8518 - 3" high by 3 1/2" wide
Price: $750 SOLD

     Ida just delivered this new vase to us - a different shape and design than we have ever had. This is a wonderful piece - the Yei Dancers are on the top part of vase with the deep brown background. Between the Dancers are the Navajo wedding baskets, and around the lip is painted the Sash Design - taken from the Navajo belts. Cloud steps are painted below. The firing is lovely - nice fire clouds are present giving off that beautiful orange hue. Ida did a fabulous job with this larger piece.

#HN187 - 6 1/2" high by 5" wide
Price: $1200 SOLD

    The night scene, is equally compelling as the Day Dance. Ida comes to see me quite often, with new works, and it is so delightful working with her. She tries so hard to make her painting precise and clear, and actually be able relate a "story". She does a terrific job.

#HN8519 - 3 3/4 " high by 3 1/4" wide
Price: $750

    Lorraine Williams was born in Sweetwater, Arizona sometime in the late 1950's. Lorraine's father was a medicine man, and her mom was an herbalist. She has SEVENTEEN brothers and sisters, three of whom are potters. Lorraine had never made a pottery until her adult years. She married George Williams, whose mother, Rose Williams is a well known Navajo potter. In 1980 Lorraine began her career as a potter. She has a very distinctive style - known for her "drawings" of Yeis and rug patterns and other Navajo scenes onto the pots. She has the ability to make HUGE pots - some of the largest pots made today.
    In the book, Pottery by American Indian Women, By Susan Peterson, she quotes Lorraine as having said, "I didn't know how to draw. You don't want to compete with your in-laws. Rose didn't draw, so I decided to draw on the clay and to make cutouts. By mistake I made a hole in the pot, and I went ahead and cut it out." Like other Navajo potters, Lorraine coats her pots with hot pitch AFTER the firing to give that very shiny finish. Lorraine has now won may awards at Flagstaff, Shiprock, Santa Fe, and Gallup. She is an important potter to know and admire. Her pieces are beautiful and so very reasonable.     This new olla has the distinctive high sheen from the pinion pitch, and the lovely carved and slipped rug pattern design. It has a nice square mouth. It is a terrific size and shape !

#HN10722 - 13" high by 8" wide
Price: $600 SOLD

    Sue Ann is the sister of Alice Cling and Susie Crank Williams. She is the sister-in-law of Lorraine Williams, and her mother is Rose Williams. Sue Ann's whole family are well-known, award-winning Navajo potters. The pottery is all hand-made in the traditional Navajo ways. The pottery is finished with a coating of pinion pitch and burnished to give the pottery a distinctive shine.
     Sue Ann often finishes her bowls with the stair stepped openings. They are particularly well shaped.

#HN9727 - 4" high by 4 1/4" wide
Price: $90 SOLD