Symbols in Clay

Seeking Artists’ Identities in Hopi Yellow Ware Bowls

Steven A. LeBlanc, Lucia R. Henderson

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Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S.
15 May 2009

Art of indigenous peoples; Ceramics: artworks

Series: Papers of the Peabody Museum

In late prehistory, the ancestors of the present-day Hopi in Arizona created a unique and spectacular painted pottery tradition referred to as Hopi Yellow Ware. This ceramic tradition, which includes Sikyatki Polychrome pottery, inspired Hopi potter Nampeyo's revival pottery at the turn of the twentieth century.

How did such a unique and unprecedented painting style develop? The authors compiled a corpus of almost 2,000 images of Hopi Yellow Ware bowls from the Peabody Museum's collection and other museums. Focusing their work on the exterior, glyphlike painted designs of these bowls, they found that the ""glyphs"" could be placed into sets and apparently acted as a kind of signature.

The authors argue that part-time specialists were engaged in making this pottery and that relatively few households manufactured Hopi Yellow Ware during the more than 300 years of its production.

Extending the Peabody's influential Awatovi project of the 1930s, Symbols in Clay calls into question deep-seated assumptions about pottery production and specialization in the precontact American Southwest.

By: Steven A. LeBlanc, Lucia R. Henderson
Imprint: Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: No. 84
Dimensions: Height: 270mm, Width: 197mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9780873652124
ISBN 10: 0873652126
Series: Papers of the Peabody Museum
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 15 May 2009
Audience: Adult education , Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Steven A. LeBlanc is an archaeologist and Director of Collections at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. Lucia R. Henderson is a Doctoral Candidate in Art and Art History at the University of Texas, Austin.