Navajo / Hopi Miniature Pottery by Ida Sahmie for Sale

On eBay Now...

Navajo / Hopi Miniature Pottery by Ida Sahmie For Sale

When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.

Navajo / Hopi Miniature Pottery by Ida Sahmie:
$240.00

Offered byAntique American Indian Art, llc--- AAIA --
Navajo / Hopi Miniature Pottery by Ida Sahmie

Miniature Pot

Size: 5/8\" x 1\"

From a Private Colorado Collection

Excellent Condition

Award-winning Ida Sahmie is known best for her pastiche of Navajo designs and Hopi pottery techniques. “Ida’s work straddles both cultures, and she reached the celebrity plateau years ago,” note Allan Hayes, John Blom, and Carol Hayes inSouthwestern Pottery: Anasazi to Zuni.

Born in Pine Springs, Arizona, in 1960, Ida grew up in a Navajo family, learning to weave even though it wasn’t her calling. In the 1980s, she married Andrew “Louie” Sahmie and moved to the Hopi reservation. There, Ida learned to make pottery from Priscilla Namingha, granddaughter of famous Hopi potter Nampeyo, and her mother in law. According to the Heard Museum, “Ida watched Priscilla making pottery and was moved by the beautiful work. Wanting to do something with her hands, Ida was encouraged by her mother-in-law to make some pots. She started out making small pots, which she fired along with Priscilla’s work. Her original designs were simple Hopi based patterns. Ida soon realized that she needed to make her own design based on her Navajo heritage.”

Now, Ida draws on both Navajo and Hopi traditions, depicting Navajo designs – including scared imagery that must be exact or sometimes requires a Night Chant ceremony – and preferring a peachy mix of natural white and yellow clay dug on the Navajo reservation, but using Hopi coiling and firing techniques. “Personally, I feel I have a unique talent with pottery. It’s a combination of both Hopi and Navajo, though I feel it should be more Navajo because I am a Navajo,” she notes in Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery.

Among other accolades, Ida won best of class and second place at the 2010 Navajo Nation Fair. Her work is in the collections of the Smithsonian and the Dallas Museum of Art.

As the nation’s leading gallery of Antique North American Indian Art and Artifacts, we invite you to consider the beautiful art and artifacts that we list on with full confidence in the authenticity and legality of the item, in the accuracy of the listing, and in the professionalism that we demonstrate in processing each transaction.
In business for over 45 years, Matt Wood and Len Wood are founding members of ATADA (Antique Tribal Arts and Dealers Association), and we provide you, the collector, a unique opportunity to buy directly from our gallery inventory via . We offer Certificates of Authenticity, a 7-day home inspection period allowing returns for full refunds (less shipping/insurance costs), and a lifetime trade-back policy (call for details). We are confident that you will be pleased with the value, service and peace-of-mind that our gallery can offer you. Thank you for looking!
SHIPMENT
We package all items for shipment in the utmost professional manner, and all shipments are fully insured. Please read our Store Policies for all of our shipping information.
PLEASE FOLLOW US on -If you hit the FOLLOW THIS SELLER link on the top right of this listing under the Seller Information button, you will be able to get the early notices of our new additions and sales. We will be adding lots of quality Antique American Indian Art over the next few months.