Hopi Mixed Media Student Drawing, 2001 Tennesmed Framed: 20 3/8" w x

Framed: 20 3/8" w x 14 5/8" t x 7/8"d

which is part of what I think makes it feel so special

Tabletop chests like these were also often "apprentice chests

I'd guess this hand-thrown pottery vase dates to the 1970s

it seems very possible it was made instead to celebrate an ongoing friendship

Hopi Mixed Media Student Drawing, 2001 Tennesmed Framed: 20 3/8" w xI purchased this drawing from a seller who had bought it along with a number of other pieces from the private collector of a teacher who had spent many years working on a Hopi reservation in Arizona, and believe it was made by a student of that teacher. I believe the figure represented in Tasap (Tasaf), the Hopi tribes representation of a Navajo god, beautifully detailed and decorated here in a manner that seems a hybrid of traditional and