Nampeyo

Nampeyo (1859  – 1942)  matukin tukwane ne na Hopi-Tewa wanda ke zaune a yankin Hopi Reservation a Arizona . Dillingham, Rick. Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994. . pp. 14–15  Sunanta na Tewa kuma an rubuta shi da Num-pa-yu, ma'ana "maciji wanda ba ya cizo". Ana kuma ambaton sunanta da "Nung-beh-yong," Tewa don Sand Snake. 

Ta yi amfani da dabarun da suka daɗe suna yin tukwane da harba su. Ta yi amfani da zane-zane daga tukwane da tarkace da aka samo a baraguzan Sikyátki na ƙarni na 15 a Mesa ta Farko.  Zane-zanenta suna cikin tarin kayan tarihi a Amurka da Turai, gami da gidajen tarihi da yawa kamar Gidan Tarihi na Ƙasa na Fasaha ta Amurka, Gidan Tarihi na Arewacin Arizona, Gidan Tarihi na Spurlock, da Gidan Tarihi na Peabody na Kimiyyar Kayan Tarihi da Ilimin Halittu a Jami'ar Harvard .

An bayyana tarihin duniya na tukwane na Indiyawan Kudu maso Yammacin Amurka a Bonhams Auction House da ke San Francisco a ranar 6 ga Disamba, 2010, lokacin da aka sayar da ɗaya daga cikin ayyukan fasaha na Nampeyo, tukunyar yumbu mai ado, akan dala $350,000. 

 Rayuwar farko 
An haifi Nampeyo a First Mesa a ƙauyen Hano, wanda aka fi sani da Tewa Village wanda ya ƙunshi zuriyar mutanen Tewa daga Arewacin New Mexico waɗanda suka gudu zuwa ƙasashen Hopi a kusan 1702 don kariya daga Sifaniyanci bayan Tawayen Pueblo na 1680. [1] Mahaifiyarta, White Corn ita ce Tewa; mahaifinta Quootsva, daga Walpi da ke kusa, ɗan ƙabilar Maciji ne na ƙasar Hopi. A bisa ga al'ada, an haifi Nampeyo a cikin ƙabilar Tewa Corn na mahaifiyarta. [2] [1] [3] Al'ada kuma ta ba wa kakarta ta uba matsayin sanya mata suna. Kakarta, wacce take cikin ƙabilar Maciji, ta sanya wa jaririn suna Tcu-mana, ko yarinya mai maciji a yaren Hopi. Iyalan mahaifiyarta, waɗanda suka zauna tare da ita, suna magana da Tewa, kuma suna kiranta da Nampeyo, wanda ke da ma'ana iri ɗaya. [4] Tana da manyan 'yan'uwa uku, Tom Polacca, Kano, da Patuntupi, wanda kuma aka sani da Squash; An haifi 'yan'uwanta maza daga kimanin 1849 zuwa 1858. [1] Nampeyo ba ta iya karatu ko rubutu ba kuma ba ta taɓa zuwa makaranta ba. [5]

William Henry Jackson ne ya fara ɗaukar hotonta a shekarar 1875; an ce tana ɗaya daga cikin masu zane-zanen yumbu da aka fi ɗaukar hoto a Kudu maso Yamma a shekarun 1870. 

Ba da daɗewa ba bayan wannan hoton, Nampeyo ta auri Kwivoya, amma aurensu bai yi nasara ba kuma ba su taɓa zama tare ba.   A shekara ta 1878  ko 1881, Lea S. McChesney. "Producing 'Generations in Clay. Expedition Magazine. Penn Museum. March 1994. Retrieved April 7. 2014. Nampeyo ta auri mijinta na biyu, Lesou (ko Lesso), ɗan ƙabilar Cedarwood a Walpi . An haifi 'yarsu ta fari, Annie, a shekara ta 1884; an haifi William Lesso, a shekara ta 1893; an haifi Nellie a shekara ta 1896; Wesley a shekara ta 1899; kuma an haifi Fannie a shekara ta 1900. 

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