CategoriesCultural and Religious Styles
Hopi Art
Art of the Hopi of northern Arizona: carved katsina figures, Sikyátki-revival pottery, coiled and wicker plaques, and overlay silver.
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The Hopi live on and around three mesas in north-eastern Arizona, in villages among the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the United States, and their art is bound up with a ceremonial calendar and a life of dry farming. Katsina figures, or tihu, are carved from cottonwood root and painted to represent spirit beings who visit the villages; they are given to girls as teaching gifts.
The Hopi-Tewa potter Nampeyo, working from the 1890s, revived designs she saw on shards from the ancient site of Sikyátki, painting sweeping birds and feathers in red and black on golden clay, and her descendants continue the style. Women on Second and Third Mesas make coiled and wicker plaques. After the Second World War, silversmiths developed overlay, cutting a design from one sheet and soldering it onto a darkened second sheet. Fred Kabotie, a painter who helped lead that programme, and Dan Namingha are among the best-known Hopi artists.
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