Pot with Geometric Design
by Season Black, Hopi Pueblo
clay, pigment
2 1/2” high x 4 3/8” diameter
Hopi-Tewa potter Season Black is a 4th generation member of the famous Naha family of potters. Helen “Featherwoman” Naha (1922-1993) was born in Hano on First Mesa, Arizona, the ancestral location where Tewa and Hopi people blended and intermarried in the aftermath of the 1680 Pueblo Revolt. As such, she was Hopi-Tewa herself. She began making pottery as a teenager, learning from her mother-in-law Paqua Naha (First Frog Woman) and sister-in-law Joy Navasie (Second Frog Woman). Season signs her pots with a feather with the number 4 incorporated into the base of the feather.
