Native American Sityaki Style Pottery by Michael Hawley (1948-2012) #858 Sold

Native AmericanSityaki Style Pottery Jar858. Description: Native American, Sityaki Style Pottery Jar by Michael Hawley, circa 1960's. Handmade and painted traditional stylized bird chakoptewa for Michael Hawley. Dimensions: 7" x 17" Condition: Very good for its age.Provenance: From an estate in Denver Colorado----------Michael Hawley (1948-2012), Chakoptewa, formerly of Scottsdale, Arizona, was the only contemporary potter creating true Sikyatki Polychrome pottery vessels in the same manner as they were originally made from the 14th through the 17th centuries. Hawley called this pottery "Chakoptewa Polychrome," Chakoptewa being his adopted Hopi name. Hawley used only hand-ground clay dug on Antelope Mesa on the Hopi Reservation and he hand coiled, shaped, polished, painted and coal fired each of the pots in a firing pit he constructed himself. All of his pigments were made by hand from minerals and plants indigenous to the Hopi Mesas and each of his painted designs is original and with