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Late 20th Century
6" H x 5.5" D
Hand Coiled with a White Slip and a Painted Black and Deep Red Geometric Designs
In Very Good Condition with Very Minor Wear as Pictured
Maynard Navasie (1945–1999): Born at First Mesa, Hopi-Tewa of the Kachina and Parrot Clans. He was the son of Joy Navasie (the second "Frog Woman") and grandson of Paqua Naha (the original "Frog Woman"). He learned pottery-making from his mother and specialized in sanding, polishing, and painting.
Veronica Navasie (née Naha or similar; 1945–2003): Hopi of the Walpi Sun Clan. She learned from her mother, Laura Preston, and typically formed/coiled the pots. They married and collaborated, with both active as potters from around 1960 onward.
Their pieces continue the family's tradition of Hopi polychrome pottery, featuring a white kaolin slip background (creating a bright, matte surface) painted with mineral- and plant-based pigments in black, brown, red, and other earth tones. Designs often draw from ancient Sikyatki motifs or classic Hopi elements like geometric patterns, feathers, winglines, stepped clouds/rain symbols, birds, and abstract fertility/seasonal motifs. The pottery is hand-coiled (no wheel), polished, slipped, painted, and traditionally outdoor-fired.
Mr. and Mrs. Navasie were cited in Hopi-Tewa Pottery 500 Biographies by Gregory Schaaf and in Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery by Rick Dillingham.
Condition:
Very Good
Tribe:
Hopi
Year Range:
1975 - 2000
Region:
Southwest
Dimensions:
6 in5.5 in
Category:
Pottery Bowls and Jars Post 1940
