Hopi-Tewa, First Mesa, Arizona
1920s
Ceramic, buff slip, mineral pigment
Height 8 in (20.3 cm)
Provenance: Southern California museum; Santa Barbara trade
This signed Hopi-Tewa pot dates to the 1920s and is attributed to Sadie Adams, a potter from the Tewa village at First Mesa associated with the Parrot and Kachina Clans. Her Hopi name, Flower Girl, is reflected in her signature, and her work is characterized by the confident figurative painting and tall cylindrical form visible here. The vessel carries a bold bird figure in black and red-orange mineral pigment on a buff slip ground, with elaborate head plumage, geometric body detail, and a fret band encircling the neck.
Sadie Adams worked within a Hopi-Tewa pottery tradition shaped by family, clan, and village relationships, and signed works from this period represent an early moment in the formalization of individual authorship within Pueblo ceramic production. The Southern California museum and Santa Barbara trade provenance provides a documented collecting history consistent with serious early institutional engagement with Hopi material. Signed examples by Adams are sought by collectors of early twentieth century First Mesa pottery.
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Hopi-Tewa, First Mesa, Arizona
1920s
Ceramic, buff slip, mineral pigment
Height 8 in (20.3 cm)
Provenance: Southern California museum; Santa Barbara trade
This signed Hopi-Tewa pot dates to the 1920s and is attributed to Sadie Adams, a potter from the Tewa village at First Mesa associated with the Parrot and Kachina Clans. Her Hopi name, Flower Girl, is reflected in her signature, and her work is characterized by the confident figurative painting and tall cylindrical form visible here. The vessel carries a bold bird figure in black and red-orange mineral pigment on a buff slip ground, with elaborate head plumage, geometric body detail, and a fret band encircling the neck.
Sadie Adams worked within a Hopi-Tewa pottery tradition shaped by family, clan, and village relationships, and signed works from this period represent an early moment in the formalization of individual authorship within Pueblo ceramic production. The Southern California museum and Santa Barbara trade provenance provides a documented collecting history consistent with serious early institutional engagement with Hopi material. Signed examples by Adams are sought by collectors of early twentieth century First Mesa pottery.
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