Antiques Roadshow; Appraisal

I don't know a whole lot about it other than it was a gift from my Aunt Marilyn and she gave it to me about 15 years ago. She purchased it from the professor from Boston University who was retiring and he was a professor of American Indian art. And he sold off his tire collection she bought two pieces. This is the one surviving piece of the one was broken. She purchased it it was 1959. It's a Native American pot do you know the tribe that made it. I think it's Hopi. It is Hopi. It's from an area on the Hopi reservation called HANO. These are very very ancient designs but the pot dates to the early 20th century perhaps the team's. Most significant I think is the maker. I believe this pot is made by a woman named pale. She was the grand dame of Pueblo pottery. She just literally transformed pottery making. Oh really. In the entire southwestern she's quite a remarkable woman. She found broken pieces of local ancient pottery from the sit Yaki Tribe A thousand fifty hundred year old tribe and she replicated those designs on her contemporary pots. It became very very popular. Many people followed

particularly in her family making these pots. One of the characteristics of Nim peyos design was symmetry. She typically designed in quadrants. You'll notice there are four elements to this part of the feather design here. Perhaps a very highly abstracted bird design there. A repeat of this feather design really elegant elegant little touches. And then. I believe a bird design with a tail and wings. See. This is the seed jar and the very very constricted neck would be used to keep the moisture in or out. You have Polychrome e of the reddish brown. A doctor around really a magnificent object in terrific condition. If you have a feeling for value. I don't know I know she paid $75 for it back in 59 and that was the deal in 1959. Figuring probably was I think on a retail basis this pot would perform very well maybe in the neighborhood 12 to $15000 for all the 15. It's a very very special good that's made by

the greatest Potter perhaps in North America of the twentieth century.