Garnet Pavatea | Also Known As: Flower Girl
GarnetPavatea was a Hopi-Tewa potter who lived and worked in the Tewa village on First Mesa, Arizona. She made the traditional forms she had learned from other potters in her village. There ...
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GarnetPavatea was a Hopi-Tewa potter who lived and worked in the Tewa village on First Mesa, Arizona. She made the traditional forms she had learned from other potters in her village. There are two colors of clay available to Hopi potters, tan and red.
Pavateachose to work with red clay which is more difficult to polish and fire. Her pieces were decorated with traditional Hopi-Tewa symbols using black and red slip. She was also known to leave her pieces undecorated with triangular indentations around the rim.
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Heard Museum of Native Cultures and Art, Phoenix, Arizona
Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona
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Christy Turner, Photographer. http://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/cdm/ref/collection/mnaha/id/14. Flagstaff, AZ: Museum of Northern Arizona, 1956.
Museum of Northern Arizona. Hopi and Hopi-Tewa pottery. Flagstaff, AZ: The Museum of Northern Arizona Press, 1993.
Wade, Edwin L., and Allan Cooke. Canvas of Clay: Seven Centuries of Hopi Ceramic Art. Sedona, AZ: El Otro Lado, 2012.
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Citation: Garnet Pavatea, "The Marks Project."
Last modified April 29, 2026. https://www.themarksproject.org/artists/garnet-pavatea
