Joy Navasie | Also Known As: 2nd Frog Woman

Joy Navasie began making pots in the Hopi-Tewa tradition when she was 17 and continued to work until her retirement in 1995. After her mother?s death Joy Navasie continued to develop and ...
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    Joy Navasie began making pots in the Hopi-Tewa tradition when she was 17 and continued to work until her retirement in 1995. After her mother?s death Joy Navasie continued to develop and work with the white pottery style her mother had pioneered shortly before her death.

    Navasie, a Hopi-Tewa potter, learned to make pots from her mother, Paqua Naha, the First Frog Woman.

    They both marked their pots with a drawing of a frog with one difference, Joy Navasie?s frogs have webbed feet while her mothers have straight toes.

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    Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California

     

    Bibliography

    Dillingham, Rick. Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1004.

     

     

     

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    Hopi

    Native American

    Arizona

    Citation: Joy Navasie, "The Marks Project."
    Last modified April 29, 2026. https://www.themarksproject.org/artists/joy-navasie

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