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SKU: 5224-1385

Hopi Pueblo Pottery Jar By Ellsworth Polacca Nampeyo

$510.00

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ca. 1978

3.125" H x 3" D 

Hand Coiled Clay Redware Jar with Incised Sgraffito and Butterfly Kachina Motif Design Signed Ellsworth Polacca Nampeyo

In Very Good Condition

Ellsworth Polacca Nampeyo (1940–1993) was a Hopi-Tewa potter from the renowned Nampeyo family of First Mesa, Arizona. He was a son of the prolific potter Fannie Nampeyo (1900–1987) and a grandson of the legendary Nampeyo of Hano (ca. 1859–1942), who revived ancient Sikyatki-style Hopi pottery traditions in the late 19th/early 20th century. 

He began making pottery in the late 1970s and was active through the 1980s. His work is known for polished redware jars and seed jars featuring incised or sgraffito (carved/etched) designs, often with motifs like butterflies, turtles, kachinas, or geometric patterns. These are typically small to miniature in scale, hand-coiled, highly polished, and sometimes accented with turquoise or other stones.

LWIT: 200206-06

Condition: Very Good

Tribe: Hopi

Year Range: 1975 - 2000

Region: Southwest

Dimensions: 3.13 in3 in

Category: Pottery Bowls and Jars Post 1940

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