Native American Pottery

Larger Ida Sahmie Navajo Hopi Pottery Night Dance

Larger Ida Sahmie Navajo Hopi Pottery Night Dance
Larger Ida Sahmie Navajo Hopi Pottery Night Dance
Larger Ida Sahmie Navajo Hopi Pottery Night Dance
Larger Ida Sahmie Navajo Hopi Pottery Night Dance
Larger Ida Sahmie Navajo Hopi Pottery Night Dance

Larger Ida Sahmie Navajo Hopi Pottery Night Dance
Ida is a Navajo who married Andrew Sahmie, a Hopi. She was the daughter-in-law of Priscilla Nampeyo from whom she learned to make pottery. Ida's pottery is unique in that she uses Navajo designs on Hopi style pots and is the only Navajo creating this unique style of pottery. The pottery is all hand-coiled, stone polished and painted with natural clays and native materials and native fired. It is the Night Dance or Night Chant with male and female Yei-bi-chi dancers encircling the jar.

The background area is fully painted with bee-weed (a plant) to make it black. In the center is the fire around which the dancers are circling.

The jar is 5 inches wide and 4 1/2 inches high and was made in 2014. Personal checks normally take 6-7 days to clear. The item "Larger Ida Sahmie Navajo Hopi Pottery Night Dance" is in sale since Sunday, July 12, 2015. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Cultures & Ethnicities\Native American\ US\1935-Now\Pottery". The seller is "dfriedl" and is located in Morrison, Colorado.

This item can be shipped to United States.


Larger Ida Sahmie Navajo Hopi Pottery Night Dance