Hopi Pueblo Polychrome Cream Slip Pottery Jar By Little Fawn Navasie Garcia

ca. 1980s 

6.125" H x 6.125" D

Hand Coiled from Cream Slipped Polychrome Clay with Hand Painted Black and Red Geometric Designs

Excellent Condition

Fawn Navasie Garcia (born 1959), a renowned Hopi Pueblo potter from Second Mesa, Arizona. Previously known as "Little Fawn" (or Fawn Navasie), she adopted the name "Fawn" after her mother's passing in 1991. This jar exemplifies her early work in white- or cream-slipped polychrome pottery, a style rooted in prehistoric Hopi traditions from the Sikyatki site (circa 1375–1625 CE). Such pieces are hand-coiled from local clays, polished to a high sheen, and fired in outdoor pits for an earthy, organic finish.

Fawn began apprenticing with her mother in the 1970s and started independent work around 1979. She specializes in the challenging white/cream slip technique, which requires precise polishing to achieve a luminous surface before applying mineral-based paints in red, black, and orange hues. Her pieces often draw from ancestral motifs like birds, feathers, and geometric patterns, blending cultural reverence with contemporary elegance.