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Lot 292

A Sikyatki polychrome jar

6 – 7 June 2016, 11:00 PDT
San Francisco

Sold for US$12,500 inc. premium

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A Sikyatki polychrome jar

Painted above the shoulder with a zigzag framing band about a scrolling and hatchured series of wing motifs, the neck stippled.
height 10in, diameter 14 1/2in

Footnotes

Provenance
A Winslow Arizona family, acquired sometime after 1921 and by descent; Jerold Collings, Arizona; Martha Struever, Santa Fe, NM

In a letter to the collector, Struever writes: "Sikyatki polychrome is an early pre-Hopi ware of the proto-historic period, 1375 - 1625 A.D. The similarity to Jeddito ollas indicates this vessel is possibly from early in this era...The influence of Sikyatki ceramics on Nampeyo and her descendants is profoundly illustrated in the painting of this jar"

This latter reference relates to the central band on the jar which, in a number of iterations has been used with great frequency by Nampeyo's descendants. It has come to be known as the "migration" pattern.

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