Southwest Indian Hopi-Tewa Pottery - History Types Artists / Scarce Illust. Book

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HOPI AND HOPI-TEWA POTTERY
by Katharine Bartlett and others, Museum of Northern Arizona, Volume 49, No. 3, 1977/1988 is part of a series in
Plateau Magazine
.
The superb color and black-and-white captioned photographs and authoritative narrative combine to make this early out-of-print book an invaluable resource reference work.  Contents include a history of Hopi pottery, techniques and materials of making Hopi pottery including production sequence, a photographic essay on the outstanding makers of Hopi pottery and “A Consumer’s Guide to Hopi Pottery.”   Potters include members of the Youvella family, Garnet Pavatea, Rodina Huma, Clarice Sahmie, Sadie Adams and more.  Supported by black and white photo plates and numerous line drawings, this text does an outstanding job of defining patterns using visual resources. It will make an outstanding addition to the reference library of any collector, dealer, curator, who needs to understand and appreciate the pottery of the Hopi and Tewa speaking Indians of the American Southwest.
8.5” x 11” stapled softback in very good condition.  33 pages.
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