Bowl
date: label: Accession Date
content: 2 Oct 1896
name: label: Donor Name
content: Bureau of Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "The work of the Hano Tewa woman potter, Nampeo [i.e. Nampeyo]."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Pl. 6 p. 14 in Traugott, Joseph 1999. Fewkes and Nampeyo: Clarifying a Myth-­‐Understanding. In Native American Art in the Twentieth Century, edited by W. Jackson Rushing, pp. 7-­‐20. Routledge, New York. Identified there as a bowl by Nampeyo from 1896 painted with a figurative design derived from a prehistoric bowl from Old Cunopavi. The design from this prehistoric bowl # A157795 is illus. in Pl. 5 also on p. 14 and identified as a bird design. On p. 11 Traugott elaborates further: "During the summer of 1896, Nampeyo created a second group of modern works based on prehistoric designs. The models for several of these pieces can be found in the collections that [Jesse Walter] Fewkes and [Walter] Hough made at Old Cunopavi, on Second Mesa, in 1896. In some cases Nampeyo replicated the physical form of an unusual piece; other times she painted designs derived from these prehistoric vessels on her own low bowl forms. Fewkes published drawings of two vessels from the Old Cunopavi excavation in his preliminary site report, vessels which Nampeyo replicated during the summer of 1896. One unusual vessel had a stump "snout" and was painted with an anthropomorphic bird figure and gambling reeds (Plate 2) [A157735]. Nampeyo copied the form of the shallow snout bowl, but slipped it with a crackly Polacca slip and painted the vessel with a pre-Sikyatki-Revival Kachina mask image (Plate 3) [E158147]. For another bowl she adapted the anthropomorphic bird from the prehistoric snout bowl on one of her vessels, but added a face with headdress when she painted this figure on a Revival-style bowl with a hanging lug (Plate 4) [E158148]. This low bowl featured an upturned rim and a polished kaolin slip that fired a smooth, shiny white. Nampeyo also copied a bird design from a vessel that Fewkes later published in the preliminary report on his activities in 1896 (Plate 5) [A157795]. This figure was reproduced exactly, on the inside of another low Revival bowl, which was finished with a polished, smooth, shiny kaolin slip (Plate 6) [E158151]. The painting on the outside of this piece presented two feather and line designs that were taken from a bowl excavated in 1895 at the Sikyatki ruin. Hough collected these three bowls as part of his research activities in 1896."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Jul 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Walpi (Waalpi), Hopi Reservation / Navajo County / First Mesa, Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hopi
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 031151
label: USNM Number
content: E158151-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pot