The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 18, 2024

Jar

Jar

1970
(American, 1900–1987)
Native North America, Southwest, Arizona, Pueblo, First Mesa
ceramic, slip
Overall: 21.5 x 31.5 cm (8 7/16 x 12 3/8 in.)
The Harold T. Clark Educational Extension Fund 1970.530
Location: 231 Native North American

Description

Pueblo pottery–making is a family affair, its matriarchs the founders of long lines of accomplished ceramic artists. Fannie Nampeyo is perhaps the most noted daughter-potter of Nampeyo of Hano, who revived fine Hopi ceramics in the late 1800s and whose legacy has so far passed through five generations of potters. The design that encircles this jar has great longevity in the family. Known as the migration pattern, it refers both to Hopi migrations and to water. Abstract, three-feathered bird wings help to create a sense of the movement that inspired the motif.
  • Purchased from Indian Mill (Thomas Jones).
  • Mansfield Arts Center, Ohio (March 7 - April 4, 1993) "Art of the First Nations"
    The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-August 22, 1982).
  • {{cite web|title=Jar|url=false|author=Fannie Nampeyo|year=1970|access-date=18 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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