Naha, Tyra – Jar with Tumbling Parrots

5.75"w x 6"h

$ 800.00

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 her grandmother, Helen “Feather Woman” Naha.  This jar is coil built and painted with native clay slips and bee-weed (black).  The designs is a series of tumbling parrots. They are each painted with different clay slips to create the striking coloration.  The rim and base are a checkerboard pattern.  The jar is traditionally fired and signed on the bottom with a feather and spider (Spider Clan ) and a “3” for being Third Generation of the Naha family.

 

 

 

 

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