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Hopi Pueblo

Bowl

Hopi Pueblo, Early 20th century

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Hopi Pueblo

Bowl

Hopi Pueblo, Early 20th century

Physical Qualities Clay, polychrome, 3 9/16 × 11 in. (9 × 28 cm.)
Credit Line Bequest of Florence Reese Winslow
Object Number 1953.220.C.3
Twentieth-century Hopi pottery incorporates designs borrowed from the Zuni, as well as ancient designs. In the 1860s drought, Navajo raids and a smallpox epidemic drove a group of Hopi to take refuge with the Zuni. When they returned home, they took with them Zuni designs. In the 1890s, the famous potter Nampeyo (photo) began experimenting with designs found by J. Walter Fewkes at the site of Sikyatki. This vessel is more similar to the Sikyatki style than to the Zuni style. Field photo: A. Dittert, Jr. and F. Plog, Generations in Clay, 1980
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1953; Florence Reese Winslow, Baraboo, WI.

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