Bowl

USA, 1900
Crocker Art Museum
Date acquired:
Materials:
Earthenware
Form - Functional: N/A
Form - Sculptural: N/A
Method:
Coiled
Surface Technique: N/A
Kiln Type: N/A
Glazes: N/A
Garnet Pavatea

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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Crocker Art Museum

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