Namoki, Lawrence – “Awatovi” Jar with Petroglyph Designs (1990s)
$ 475.00
Lawrence Namoki was known for the variety of styles of his pottery. While he began with deeply carved pottery, he ended his career by creating delicately painted vessels. This jar is coil-built and painted with clay slips. The neck of the jar is carved and painted to look like wood. There is a more deeply carved and incised red band. Around the center of the piece there are various petroglyph figures. There is a figure, lizard, avanyu, and antelope. They are each tightly painted on a stippled background meant to look like rock. The bottom again is painted to look like wood. This jar combines two periods of his pottery with the carved and painted designs. They are painted with clay slips and bee-weed on a painted clay surface. The jar is signed on the bottom, “Lawrence Namoki”. It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration or repair.
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Lawrence Namoki was known for the variety of styles of his pottery. While he began with deeply carved pottery, he ended his career by creating delicately painted vessels. This jar is coil-built and painted with clay slips. The neck of the jar is carved and painted to look like wood. There is a more deeply carved and incised red band. Around the center of the piece there are various petroglyph figures. There is a figure, lizard, avanyu, and antelope. The
on is different and the are on a stippled background to look like rock. The bottom again is painted to look like wood. This jar combines two periods of his pottery with the carved and painted designs. They are painted with clay slips and bee-weed on a painted clay surface. The jar is signed on the bottom, “Lawrence Namoki”. It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration or repair.
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Namoki, Lawrence (1949-2020)
Lawrence Namoki is from Walpi, the oldest village on First Mesa at Hopi. He began his art career carving miniature katchina in wood. In the 1980's he began making pottery which was deeply carved and the imagery was mostly focused on Katsina figures. The surfaces were slipped and painted to give the appearance of wood. Today, his work has taken a new turn with imagery based on Hopi myths and history. He says of his pottery, "The type of artwork I do cannot be taught in any educational institute. Only a true Hopi can do what I do and he must understand the Hopi culture and the life of a Hopi to do artwork of this type. All my artwork on pottery is based on Hopi Culture and Myths.” Lawrence has won numerous awards for his pottery at events such as Santa Fe Indian Market and the Heard Indian Market. His pottery can also be found in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum, the Smithsonian, and the Heard Museum.