Bowl

Bowl

Small burnished bowl with buff clay body and an abstract and more modernized interpretation/design of Yei holding hands around the pot in matte black. There are four different figures, that follow in a pattern repeated three times around the bowl, encompassed by a border of slanted triangles pointing to the left along the top and upright triangles curved to a point along either side. The highly stylized Yei or "holy people" figures have different faces and their heads are facing in different directions along with their head adornments that look like antennae of an ant, but the bodies are all made of two triangles mirrored horizontally and their legs & feet are all facing the same direction toward the right. Signed by artist G. Kahe on bottom of bowl, along with a price of $160 written in pencil.
  • Object: Bowl
  • Artist: Gloria Kahe
  • Circa: -
  • Dimensions: 3.75" W x 3" H
  • Culture Area: Southwest
  • Cultural Group: Hopi; Dine (Navajo)
  • Cultural Context: -
  • Donor: Lois E. Phillips
  • Catalog #: 119.055