page_title: Faye Tso
section_title: Noted works
hierarchical_section_title: Faye Tso / Noted works
caption_attribution_description: English: Pot with Dancers with Headdresses and Rattles, ca. 1985 by Faye Tso, fired clay with piñon pitch, 22 x 18 7/8 x 18 1/2 in. (55.9 x 47.9 x 47.0 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson 1997.124.177
context_page_description: Faye Tso was a Navajo potter and herbal medicine healer. Her pieces are known for their nontraditional imagery of corn maidens, warriors, and dancers, whereas Navajo pottery typically has little decoration. Born in Coal Mine Mesa, Arizona, Tso was relocated with other Navajos to Tuba City, Arizona in 1974 because of a land dispute between the Navajo and Hopi tribes. She returned to dig her clay at Coal Mine Mesa, where she also gathered pinon from which she extracted the pitch resin used to coat and seal her Dineh pottery. Her husband and son are medicine men and use Tso's pots in their ceremonies.
context_section_description: Head of Emmett, c. 1985, fired clay with piñon pitch, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1997.124.175
  Bean Pot with Incised Corn Maiden Figures, 1987, fired clay with piñon pitch, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1997.124.176
  Pot with Dancers with Headdresses and Rattles, c. 1985, fired clay with piñon pitch, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1997.124.177
  Pot with Figurative Decoration, c. 1992, fired clay with piñon pitch, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1997.124.178
caption: Pot with Dancers with Headdresses and Rattles, ca. 1985by Faye Tso, fired clay with piñon pitch, 22 x 18 7/8 x 18 1/2 in. (55.9 x 47.9 x 47.0 cm)Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chuck and Jan Rosenak and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson1997.124.177
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