About this artwork
The Nampeyo family continues to invent variations on longstanding decorative patterns featured in traditional Hopi pottery. A kaleidoscopic array of motifs—many of ancient origin—present a lively “fractured” design, an approach seen earlier in Hopi Sikyatki ceramics created from 1400 through 1625.
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Status
- On View, Gallery 136
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Department
- Arts of the Americas
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Artist
- Priscilla Namingha Nampeyo
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Cultures
- Tewa , Hopi
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Title
- Polychrome Jar
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Places
- Arizona (Object made in), United States (Object made in), Hopi, First Mesa (Object made in)
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Date
- c. 1983
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Medium
- Ceramic and pigment
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Inscriptions
- Signed bottom, top-middle, in black pigment: "Priscilla / NaMINgha"; inscribed bottom, middle, in graphite: "VZ - 6209".
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Dimensions
- 15.5 × 28.2 × 28.3 cm (6 1/8 × 11 1/8 × 11 3/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of David and Cindy Van Zelst
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Reference Number
- 2008.180
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