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SKU: 22-1009

Hopi Pueblo Pottery Stepped Bowl with Bail "Kiva Bowl" By Melody Naha

$465.00

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ca. 1994

5.625" H x 4.5" D, Bowl - 2.125" H

Hand Coiled with an Apricot and Cream Field with Painted Dark Brown Rim with Frog and Tadpole Motif Design Signed Melody Naha 4th Gen Nampeyo

The stepped bowl symbolizes clouds and the frogs and tadpoles "water". This is the sort of item that is sometimes referred to as a Kiva Bowl in that it is associated with prayer and sustenance. 

From a Private Colorado Collection

In Very Good Condition

The Naha family is a major Hopi-Tewa pottery lineage from the First Mesa area (Hano/Polacca region).

Condition: Very Good

Tribe: Hopi

Year Range: 1975 - 2000

Region: Southwest

Dimensions: 5.63 in4.5 in2.13 in

Category: Pottery Bowls and Jars Post 1940

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