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Nellie Nampeyo Hopi Pot

Currency:USD Category:American Indian Art / Art - Pottery Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 600.00 USD
Nellie Nampeyo Hopi Pot
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This item SOLD at 2017 Dec 03 @ 12:58UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
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Vintage Nellie Nampeyo pot. Pot is in good condition, 4.5" h x 7" diameter. Nellie Douma Nampeyo (1896-1978), Hopi Pueblo, was one of three daughters of Nampeyo and Lesso. Nellie was taken to the Grand Canyon, when just a child, when her mother was convinced to spend the summer there at the newly constructed "Hopi House" built by the Fred Harvey Company. Nampeyo was there to demonstrate pottery making for tourists but the whole family was intended to show the manner in which the Hopi lived. For the 1910 Exposition in the Chicago, ever aware of an opportunity to lure travelers to the southwest, the Santa Fe Railway commissioned a brown stucco pueblo style house on-site to be inhabited by Indians from Hopi. Of course, Nampeyo was requested to represent the Hopi as the pottery maker, and her daughter Nellie, who was about 16 at the time, accompanied her parents on the Santa Fe train to Chicago. Nellie was perhaps one of the very few young Hopi who had spent a summer at the Grand Canyon and ridden a train to Chicago.



Date: c.1935 Location: Hopi, Arizona HWAC # 52133