Carla Claw Nampeyo, Hopi Pueblo seed jar
Carla Claw Nampeyo
1961-
Hopi/Tewa
Date
1997
Classification
Ceramic
Dimensions
3 x 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (7.6 x 6.4 x 6.4 cm)
Accession Number
2018.35.30.167
Credit
Gift of Carol and Don Tallman
Memo / Artist Statement
"Mainly my work is kind of different from everybody's I use a dark brown polished slip on plain seed pots done with sqraffito carving like my dad [Tom Polacca] does. It's kind of unique in a way, to me it's modern. That's the outlook now. Things that are different are more accepted, but they're done in traditional form that links us back to who we are." -Carla Claw (Dillingham 1994)
Biography
Carla Claw Nampeyo is a Hopi-Tewa of the Snow Clan. She is from the First Mesa village of Shungopavi and is the daughter of Thomas Polacca Nampeyo, sister to Gary Polacca Nampeyo, Fannie Myron, Delmar Polacca and Elvira Naha. The granddaughter of Fannie Polacca Nampeyo and the Great-granddaughter of Nampeyo. She has been an active potter since the mid-1970s. She specializes in dark brown slipped pottery and sgraffito carving. Carla respects the traditional process of digging clay and firing. Her carved motifs stem from her father, Thomas Polacca's aesthetic.
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Carla Nampeyo (in pen)
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