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Jeddito Black-on-yellow bowl, ca AD 1350-1450, MNA Catalog number A728
The spiral pattern here reminds Hopi consultants of migration. As the clans migrated, they learned more about their desert environment. The pattern of parallel straight and stepped lines represents water running through agricultural fields.
© 2006 Museum of Northern Arizona, photo by Gene Balzer
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Jeddito Black-on-yellow jar, ca. AD 1350-1450, MNA Catalog number A760
This small jar has a design of rain clouds. Putting clouds on a jar to hold water is fitting, because Hopi farmers rely on rain from summer thundershowers to grow their crops and on snow from winter storms to moisten the soil before spring planting
© 2006 Museum of Northern Arizona, photo by Gene Balzer
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Tusayan Polychrome Bowl Rim Sherd, 1200AD
Migrating clans left broken pottery as messages to us that they were here. Hopis include pottery fragments among kinds of footprints of thier ancestors.
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"The cross is called Tuuwanasavi in Hopi. The earth center. The cross, it's literally called nahoylèetsi, but it's where the center is, the spiritual center. And then the four cardinal directions...the clans eventually migrated and returned back to center. So the cross, in many cases, represents what you call the earth's spiritual center."
-Leigh Kuwanwisiwma, January 23rd, 2006 |
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| This ladle is used for scooping water. IT has a design of spattered paint and tadpoles representing water. |
MNA Babbitt Collection, Walnut black on white bowl, AD 1200's
This bowl has a design that resembles cotton textiles. |
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Kawaika-a Polychrome Bowl, University of Colorado Museum
The hand has multiple symbolic meanings, including the idea that farming is done by hand, as well as pottery. |
Houck Sherd; White mound black on white bowl fragment from NA8939 pithouse 3 near Houck
Tree ring dates range from AD785-AD837 at this site. This bowl depicts figures wearing butterfly hair whorls, poli'ini. This hairstyle is still worn today by young women when they complete their traditional Hopi puberty ceremony. |
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Seed Jar
This Garrett Maho seed jar depicts a variety of Katsinas. Hopi Show, 2006.
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Seed Jar (Close up)
This Katsina is Hahai'iWuuti, mother of the Katsinas. Hopi Show, 2006. |
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Jeddito Black-on-yellow bowl, MNA catalog number NA1019.27, ca. AD1350-1450, from the site of Kokopnyama, near Jeddito, Arizona.
This bowl depicts two parrots. The parrot on the right has a prayer feather on its beak. The one on the left has a pattern on its body that some consultants associate with the Water Clan, which migrated to the Hopi Mesas from the south. One type of parrot used to live in southern Arizona; many types live in Mexico.
These figures may depict macaws, a large parrot native to tropical parts of Mexico. Archaeologists have found macaw skeletons in many Puebloan sites such as Chaco Canyon great houses, ca AD1100, and Homol'ovi sites near Winslow, ca. AD1300 to 1400. Hopi ancestors probably traded for parrots, whose brightly colored feathers are still important today for ritual use. Parrots depicted on pottery and in petrogylphs might refer to the migrations of the Parrot Clan.
© 2006 Museum of Northern Arizona, photo by Gene Balzer
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