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- 091104-05 Hopi Pueblo Pottery: Large Fawn Navasie Pot with Deer
091104-05 Hopi Pueblo Pottery: Large Fawn Navasie Pot with Deer
Size: 9.5"x 11.5"d
ca. 1979
This pot comes with an old photograph of Fawn Navasie, c. 1979-80.
Fawn Navasie-GarciaHopi - TewaFawn Navasie-Garcia, "formerly Litte Fawn", was born in 1959 into the Hopi Reservation. She was inspired to continue the family tradition of making pottery by her late Mother, the famous "Eunice (original Fawn) Navasie." Eunice taught her all the fundamentals of traditional Hopi pottery making. Early on, Fawn specialized in the white slip pottery that her mother taught her to make, which according to Fawn is much more difficult to make.
Fawn specializes in elegant polychrome buff or yellow slipped pottery. All of her materials are gathered within the Hopi Reservation, including the colors used on the pottery. She cleans the clay, mixes, hand-coils, shapes, sands, paints, and fires her pottery the traditional way, outdoors with sheep dung. Fawn coils a wide variety of shapes like wedding vases, egg shaped pots, and bowls. Her designs originate from the Sikyatki Ruins (yellow earth and it's the name of a former village at the Hopi Reservation located two miles north of First Mesa). Fawn signs her pottery as: Fawn, followed by a fawn hoofprint.