Naha, Tyra – 10″ Plate with Turtle Design

Tyra Naha is a daughter of Rainy Naha.   She learned to make pottery from her mother and continues to make traditional-style Hopi-Tewa pottery in the style of her grandmother, Helen “Feather Woman” Naha.  This large plate fully polished on the front and back.  The central design is a turtle representing the Water Clan, and there is a rainbow design around the edge.  Note the “back” of the turtle. There are eight connected cloud and rain designs.  It is painted with bee-weed (black) and colorful clay slips.  It was traditionally fired and signed on the back with a feather and spider (Spider Clan ).

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Naha, Tyra

Tyra Naha (or Tyra Naha-Black, or Tyra Naha Tawawina) represents the third generation in a family of well-known Hopi Pueblo potters. She is the great granddaughter of Paqua Naha, a granddaughter of Helen "Featherwoman" Naha and a daughter of Rainy Naha. She is a niece of Syliva Naha and Burell Naha. Each piece is coil built, stone polished and painted with native clay slips. Her pottery is signed with a feather and a 3, representing being third generation of from Helen Naha. The spider represents her being Spider Clan.