small jar with migration pattern

Fannie Nampeyo, artist

Cultural affiliations: Hopi

1900 or 1904–1987, active 1920–1987

small jar with migration pattern, early 1900s–1975

Where object was made: First Mesa, Arizona, United States

Material/technique: ceramic; paint

Dimensions:
Object Height/Diameter (Height x Diameter): 10.5 x 15.5 cm
Object Height/Diameter (Height x Diameter): 4 1/8 x 6 1/8 in

Credit line: Gift of Margaret L. Hoopes

Accession number: 2007.1813

Not on display

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Exhibition Label:
"Echoes of Human Migration in the Collection of the Spencer Museum of Art," Mar-2010
The undulating migration pattern depicted on this vessel forms part of an artistic lineage first developed by Iris Nampeyo, Fannie’s mother, passed down within her family and also adopted by other potters. The pattern possibly pays tribute to the ancient migrations of the Hopi as well as to Nampeyo’s own migration from the pueblo of her birth to the Hopi Reservation in Arizona.