Garnet Pavateah Hopi Bowl - 1963 First Place Ceremonial Ribbon Winner

Dimensions:-

Height: 6.5"

Width: 14"

Opening: 12"

Tribe: Hopi

Item #: 40029

Garnet Pavateah

 Garnet Pavateah (1915-1981), sister of Myrtle Young, was a Hopi artist who made pots of all kinds including both redware and yellowware. In the 1960s she began making plain redware bowls. She won many major awards for her work. She grew up surrounded by some of the finest Hopi-Tewa potters of the time. Garnet and Myrtle both learned from their mother. For Garnet, pottery became an expression of self, she began producing pieces around 1946 all the way until her passing until 1981.

At the 1980 Hopi Show, she narrowly failed to win the Best of Pottery Division ribbon. That following winter she decided she was going to make big pots again, like those her mother had made but no one was making any more. She made this her goal, despite having lost both legs to diabetes. Somehow, she managed to gather and process her clay, then she made her biggest pot ever. She entered that pot in the Hopi Show and it "reclaimed" her Best of Pottery ribbon. She passed on two weeks later.

Pictured is one of the largest bowls Garnet crafted in her lifetime, and the piece that won a first prize Blue Ribbon at the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial in 1963.