Nellie Lesso Nampeyo Douma (daughter of Nampeyo, 1896-1978) and her daughter Marie Nampeyo Koopee (1913-1982) with Nellie's unfired pots, Polacca, First Mesa, Hopi Reservation. Photographer, Helga Teiwes, 1973. ASM 37757
Included here are examples of pottery in ASM's collection by Nampeyo's three daughters and one granddaughter:
- Annie Nampeyo Healing (daughter, 1884–1968)
- Nellie Lesso Nampeyo Douma (daughter, 1896–1978)
- Fannie Polacca Nampeyo (daughter, 1900–1987)
- Rachel Namingha Nampeyo ( granddaughter, 1903-1985). Daughter of Annie and mother of noted potters Priscilla Nampeyo, Dextra Quotskuyva, Eleanor Lucas, Emerson Namingha, and Ruth Namingha.
Polychrome jar with solid migration/bird-wing design, signed “Annie Nampeyo,” c. 1930–1960. Collection of John and Clara Lee Tanner. Gift of Karl and Sandy Elers, 2011. Diameter 10.8 cm. (ASM #2011-665-69).
Polychrome jar with solid migration/bird-wing design, signed “Annie Nampeyo,” c. 1930–1960. Collection of John and Clara Lee Tanner. Gift of Karl and Sandy Elers, 2011. Diameter 10.8 cm. (ASM #2011-665-69).
Polychrome bowl with migration/bird-wing design, signed “Nellie Nampeyo,” c. 1940. Gift of Reverend Victor R. Stoner, 1941. Purchased at Tom Pavatea’s Trading Post in Polacca, Arizona. Diameter 16.5 cm. (ASM #E-852).
Detail, polychrome bowl with migration/bird-wing design, signed “Nellie Nampeyo,” c. 1940. Gift of Reverend Victor R. Stoner, 1941. Purchased at Tom Pavatea’s Trading Post in Polacca, Arizona. Diameter 16.5 cm. (ASM #E-852).
Nellie Lesou (Lesso) Nampeyo, 1915–1920. Arizona Historical Society, Evelyn Bentley Collection, MS1195, call no. 72251, p. 20.
Nellie Lesso Nampeyo Douma (1896-1978), daughter of Nampeyo. Photographer, Helga Teiwes, 1973. ASM C-6868
Polychrome bowl with migration/bird-wing design, signed “Fannie Nampeyo,” c. 1940. Kinishba Museum transfer, 1969. Diameter 28 cm. (ASM #E-8110).
Detail, polychrome bowl with migration/bird-wing design, signed “Fannie Nampeyo,” c. 1940. Kinishba Museum transfer, 1969. Diameter 28 cm. (ASM #E-8110).
Nampeyo’s daughter Fannie, c. 1923. Charles M. Wood, photographer (ASM #1116). The National Museum of the American Indian also has a set of photographs by Wood.
Polychrome bowl with avian designs on interior and exterior by Fannie Nampeyo. Bowl was a first prize winner at the Arizona State Fair, 1953. Museum purchase, 2024. (2024-441-1).
Polychrome bowl with avian designs on interior and exterior by Fannie Nampeyo. Bowl was a first prize winner at the Arizona State Fair, 1953. Museum purchase, 2024. (2024-441-1).
Detail, polychrome bowl with avian designs on interior and exterior by Fannie Nampeyo. First-prize winner at the Arizona State Fair, 1953. Museum purchase, 2024. (2024-441-1).
Polychrome jar, Rachel Nampeyo, 1952. Gift of Maxine Peirce, 2018. Diameter 47.5 cm. (ASM #2018-164-1).
This polychrome jar by Rachel Nampeyo was a gift by Maxine Peirce in honor and memory of her husband Dr. H. Wesley Peirce (1924–1994), a geologist with the Arizona Bureau of Geology at the University of Arizona. It was a prize winner at the 1952 Hopi Craftsman Show, but then was chipped after the judging. Given this flaw, Maxine Peirce purchased the spectacular jar for $45.00 (the original price had been $60.00).