Hopi Pueblo Vase Pottery By Nampeyo of Hano

ca. 1920 - 1940

9.5" H x 5.5" D

Tall with Slip Decorated Vase with Ancient Kayenta/Tusayan Revival Motifs with Red Slip Influenced by Zuni Styles 

In Very Good Condition with Very Small Rim Chip 

Nampeyo of Hano (c. 1857–1942), also known as "Nampeyo the Old Lady," was a renowned Hopi-Tewa potter from the First Mesa village of Hano on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona. Born to a Tewa mother and Hopi father, she was raised in a community of Tewa people who had migrated to Hopi lands around 1700 following the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. Nampeyo learned pottery-making from her grandmother at a young age and began selling her work as a teenager, initially creating traditional "Polacca" or "crackle ware" pottery—coiled vessels with a textured, crackled surface typical of Hopi styles in the late 19th century.