Old Hopi Indian Decorated Polychrome Vase Bowl Nampeyo Sikyatki Style Design For Sale

Being offered is a vintage, Antique, Hopi Indian made pottery vase or bowl. The vase has the older greyish color clay used during the early 1900's. The vase has the classic Nampeyo Sikyatki Revival style, design, and clay color. This was was fired the old way in an open pit or primitive oven as you see the darker firing or burnishing marks to the finish and glaze design finish. Also, the white area on the bottom is where the piece laid while firing. The vase does show age and wearing with surface abrasions, wearing, and scratches in places. There look to be small stains or spots in places. This is a great old piece and is intact without any structural damage like chips or cracks. I have taken many pictures to help assess the age related wearing, firing issues, and abrasions. The vase is approx. 4 3/4" tall by 7" wide at its widest portion.
According to the Arizona State Museum, "Nampeyo is famous for her Sikyatki-revival stylepottery. Sikyatki is the name of an enormous ancient Hopi village on the eastflank of First Mesa that was abandoned about 1500. The abandonment of Sikyatkiis told in Hopi oral tradition as due to a dispute with Walpi, whosedescendents still reside on top of First Mesa, that resulted in the destructionof Sikyatki.

Sikyatki was partially excavated by Jesse WalterFewkes of the Smithsonian Institution in 1895. Nampeyo visited the excavationwith her husband, Lesso, and was inspired by the finely made, impeccablydecorated jars and bowls of pottery that were being removed. It is clear that Nampeyo, and also other Hopiand Hopi-Tewa potters, were making innovative pottery before Fewkes’s work atSikyatki through the encouragement of Thomas Keam who operated the trading postat what is now known as Keams Canyon. But, there is no doubt that theincredible pottery from Sikyatki was a major influence on Nampeyo’s style after1895. This style emphasizes highly stylized birds, especially macaws."