Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952)

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Original mount: 18 x 22 1/2 inches
Original mount: 18 x 22 1/2 inchesOriginal mount: 18 x 22 1/2 inchesOriginal mount: 18 x 22 1/2 inchesOriginal mount: 18 x 22 1/2 inches
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Title:
Unpublished Nampeyo - Hopi
Date:
Dated: 1900
Size:
12 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches
Medium:
Vintage Platinum Photograph
Signed:
L/R
 
Nampeyo (1859 –1942) (WIKI)

Nampeyo was a Hopi-Tewa potter who lived on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona. Her Tewa name was also spelled Num-pa-yu, meaning "snake that does not bite". Her name is also cited as "Nung-beh-yong," Tewa for Sand Snake.Nampeyo was born on First Mesa in the village of Hano, also known as Tewa Village which is primarily made up of descendants of the Tewa people from Northern New Mexico who fled west to Hopi lands about 1702 for protection from the Spanish after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. Her mother, White Corn was Tewa; her father Quootsva, from nearby Walpi, was a member of the Snake clan. According to tradition, Nampeyo was born into her mother's Tewa Corn clan. She had three older brothers, Tom Polacca, Kano, and Patuntupi, also known as Squash; Her brothers were born from about 1849 to 1858.Nampeyo could not read or write and never went to school.
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