Hopi Pueblo Pottery Jar By Joy Navasi

ca. 1980

9" H x 5.75" D

Hand Coiled Tall Vase Form with a Classic Bird Motif Similar to Examples Pictured in the Famous May 1974 Pottery Issue of Arizona Highways Magazine on the Inside Cover.

In Very Good Condition

Joy Navasie (1919–2012), also known as the "Second Frog Woman" or "Yellow Flower," was a renowned Hopi-Tewa potter from the Hopi Pueblo in Arizona. She specialized in traditional Hopi whiteware pottery—hand-coiled jars and vessels with a distinctive creamy white kaolin slip background, painted in black (often from beeweed) and red (from clay slips), then traditionally fired (she preferred sheep dung for firing).

Her mother, Paqua Naha (the original "First Frog Woman"), pioneered the polished white-slip style around the early 1950s, and Joy learned the craft from her starting around age 17 (in the mid-1930s). Joy continued the family tradition until her retirement in 1995, producing elegant polychrome jars with strong, balanced geometric and figurative designs. Her work is highly collectible and appears in major museums like the Heard Museum, Museum of Northern Arizona, and others.