Hopi Pottery
Available
HP19104
$545.00
Description
Hopi hand-coiled polychrome pottery by Loretta Laban, daughter of the Frog Woman Joy Navasie. Loretta is the grand daughter of Paqua Naha a famous and innovative pottery artist. This particular pottery has gone through a process of gathering and preparing the clay, then coiling the pot, smoothing, drying, sanding, going through it's first polishing. The painting is then started usually with natural pigments, the pot then goes through a second polishing then the final process of firing.