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Nampeyo Vessel ASM# GP52534-x-2
Polychrome jar with migration design, around 1930.
Although this exquisite
jar has been attributed to Nampeyo, it was almost certainly painted by
someone else. The elongated triangle motifs are often referred to as batwings,
although the origin of this interpretation is unclear. The entire style
with the hatched background is consistently referred to as a migration
design, with the lines suggesting the paths taken by clans as they descended
upon Hopi.
Nampeyo
scholar Barbara Kramer has found that Nampeyo was less likely to render
this design in the great detail that her two daughters later did, and
notes that where a bar of diagonal lines appears in the wing design on
this jar, Annie would more likely have had dots. For this reason
and due to the higher than average shoulder on the jar, Kramer puts her
money on granddaughter Rachel as the painter.
37.5 cm diameter. (ASM #GP52534-x-2)
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