Today's artist/painter is a woman named Nampeyo she lived in the Hopi Reservation in Arizona. She was a Hopi Yewa Potter Her Tewa name was also spelt Num-pa-yu, meaning "snake that does not bite".
Nampeyo used ancient technics for firing and designs from ancient Hopi pottery from the 15th century, Sikyatki ruins. 
Her artwork is in National Museums in America, Arizona, the Peabody Museum and Havard University. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian_American_Art_Museum

Nampeyo was born on First Mesa in the village of Hano, also known as Tewa Village which is primarily made up of descendants of the Tewa people from Northern New Mexico who fled west to Hopi lands about 1702 for protection from the Spanish after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. 

Her mother, White Corn was Tewa; her father Quootsva, from nearby Walpi, was a member of the Snake Clan. According to tradition, Nampeyo was born into her mother's Tewa Corn Clan. She had three older brothers, Tom Polacca, Kano, and Patuntupi, also known as Squash; Her brothers were born from about 1849 to 1858.

William Henry Jackson first photographed her in 1875 and was reputedly one of the most photographed ceramic artists in the Southwest during the 1870s.

About 1878 or 1881, Nampeyo married her second husband, Lesou, a member of the Cedarwood clan at Walpi. Their first daughter, Annie, was born in 1884; William Lesso, was born about 1893; Nellie was born in 1896; Wesley in 1899; and Fannie was born in 1900.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nampeyo

Nampeyo

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