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SKU: 749-32

Hopi Jar by Racheal Nampeyo, Migration Motif

1950-60

6.5" x 9"

Large olla form with migration pattern; black and red on orange/buff. 

Rachel Namingha Nampeyo (also spelled Rachael; ca. 1900/1903–1985/1990) was a Hopi-Tewa potter from First Mesa on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona and a key figure in the multi-generational Nampeyo family pottery tradition. 
She was the daughter of Annie Healing Nampeyo (the eldest daughter of the renowned potter Nampeyo of Hano) and Willie Healing.
She was the granddaughter of Nampeyo of Hano (ca. 1859–1942), the Hopi-Tewa artist who led the Sikyátki Revival of Hopi pottery in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Rachel began learning pottery as a young child from her grandmother Nampeyo and her mother Annie. A well-known 1901 photograph shows four generations of the family: White Corn (Nampeyo’s mother), Nampeyo, Annie Healing holding the infant Rachel.She attended the Polacca Day School and later the Phoenix Indian School. As a young woman she worked for a time as a cook at the Hubbell Trading Post in Ganado, Arizona (alongside other young Hopi women including her aunt Fannie Nampeyo).Around 1923 she married Emerson Namingha. They had seven children. Among her descendants who became potters are her daughter Priscilla Namingha Nampeyo and granddaughter Rachel Sahmie Nampeyo (a later artist who also carried the family name).

Condition: Very Good

Tribe: Hopi

Year Range: 1950 - 1975

Region: Southwest

Dimensions: 6.5 in9 in

Category: Pottery Bowls and Jars Post 1940

Artist: Nampeyo, Rachel Namingha (1900/1903–1985/1990)

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