History, Department of
Date of this Version
September 2008
Document Type
Book Chapter
Abstract
The Artist Hopid were inspired and challenged when we took time in the early years of the 1970s to study wall paintings from kivas unearthed at the ancient villages.... We did some intensive research for the purpose of learning about ancient, Hopi ceremonial art. Primarily, we were interested in the style of images, form and composition, and symbolic meaning.—Honvantewa
Twenty-three examples are presented:
Ancient Awatovi site: Figures 20-23(Courtesy of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
20. AWATOVI KIVA MURAL, Arizona,Room 529, Right Wall, Design 1
21. AWATOVI KIVA MURAL, Arizona, Room 788, Composite of Left and Right Walls, Design 1
22. AWATOVI KIVA MURAL, Arizona, Test 14, Room 2, Right Wall, Design 6
23. AWATOVI KIVA MURAL, Arizona, Room 788B,. Left Wall, Design 4
Ancient Kawaika-a site: Figures 24-26(Courtesy of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
24. KAWAIKA-A KIVA MURAL, Arizona, Test 4, Room 4, Front Wall, Design 7
25. KAWAIKA-A KIVA MURAL, Arizona, Test 4, Room 4, Back Walls, Design 2
26. KAWAIKA-A KIVA MURAL, Arizona, Test 5, Room 1, Left Wall, Design 2
Ancient Pottery Mound site: Figures 27-30 (Courtesy of Frank C. Hibben and K.C. DenDooven, Las Vegas, Nevada)
27. POTTERY MOUND KIVA MURAL, New Mexico, Kiva 2, Layer 2, South wall
28. POTTERY MOUND KIVA MURAL, New Mexico, Kiva 7, Layer 3, West wall
29. POTTERY MOUND KIVA MURAL, New Mexico, Kiva 2, Layer 3, West Wall
30. POTTERY MOUND KIVA MURAL, New Mexico, Kiva 16, Layer 1, East Wall
Twentieth-century Hopi works: Figures 31-42
31. SQUASH MAIDEN — Neil David, Sr. painting, acrylic.
32. JEWELRY (pendant) — LOMAWYWESA (Michael Kabotie) Hopi overlay, silver. 1981
33. JEWELRY (one pendant and neckpiece) — LOMAWYWESA (Michael Kabotie) Hopi overlay, silver. 1981
34. AWATOVI EAGLE PRIEST — HONVANTEWA (Terrance Talaswaima) painting, acrylic.
35. AWATOVI RAIN PRIEST — HONVANTEWA (Terrance Talaswaima) painting, acrylic.
36. AWATOVI RAIN MAIDEN — HONVANTEWA (Terrance Talaswaima) painting, acrylic.
37. SPIRITS ABOVE US — DAWAKEMA (Milland Lomakema) painting, acrylic.
38. AWATOVI STILL LIFE — LOMAWYWESA (Michael Kabotie) painting, acrylic.
39. AWATOVI WARRIOR — COOCHSIWUKIOMA (Delbridge Honanie) painting, acrylic.
40. WARRIOR GOD — Neil David, Sr., painting, acrylic.
41. LAKON MANAS IN THE PLAZA AT WALPI — Joseph Mora, photograph, 1904–1906 (Courtesy of John R. Wilson, Tulsa, Oklahoma)
42. HOPI COILED PLAQUE C — Marla Tewaweira, Second Mesa, Arizona. 1980
Comments
Published in Hopi Nation: Essays on Indigenous Art, Culture, History, and Law, edited by Edna Glenn, John R. Wunder, Willard Hughes Rollings, and C. L. Martin (Lincoln, NE: UNL Digital Commons, 2008). Copyright © 2008 the Estate of Edna Glenn, Willard Hughes Rollings, Abbott Sekaquaptewa, Barton Wright, Michael Kabotie, Terrance Talaswaima, Alice Schlegel, Robert H. Ames, Peter Iverson, and John R. Wunder. All images and artwork are copyright by the individual artists; for a listing see pages 9-14.