Small Navajo Ceremonial Dine Pot by Ida Sahmie

Small Navajo Ceremonial Dine Pot by Ida Sahmie

Dimensions:-

Height: 3 1/2”

Width: 3 1/2”

Opening: 2 1/4” 

Tribe: Dine 

Item #: 400071 

Artist:

Ida Sahmie

    Ida Sahmie, born in the Dine (Navajo) nation in 1960, began making pottery in 1990 and is still active today. Ida portrays traditional Navajo ceremonies and imagery from sand paintings on her unique pottery. All the clay and materials are gathered from Navajo land. The pottery is all coil built, stone polished, painted with natural clay, and native fired. She is the only Navajo potter creating this unique style of ethnographic pottery.

Ida is married a Hopi, Andrew L. Sahmie Sr who is a potter of story tellers himself and she uses Hopi-Tewa pottery techniques as well but mainly sticks to her Navajo designs. Her mother-in-law is Priscilla Namingha Nampeyo. 

Ida’s work has been featured in multiple magazines including Arizona Highways, The Focus, Cowboys and Indians, Southwest Art, and New Mexico Magazine. Plus books such as the Fourteen Families, the Enduring Traditions, the Treasures of the Navajo Folk Art. In addition to the books and magazines, she been to the Santa Fe Indian Market,The Heard Museum, The Fountain Hills Show, The Tucson Art Show and many private shows/lectures.