The Dr. Samuel R. Poliakoff Collection of Western Art

at the Abbeville County Library System, Abbeville, SC

Jim Abieta
Jim Abieta
Jim Abieta
Jim Abieta
Nathan Begay
Nathan Begay
Rena Billie
Rena Billie
Louise Goodman
Martha Gordon
Mary Kee
Charles Lee
Lucy Leuppe McKelvy
Cecelia Nelson
Ida Sahme
Jennie Thomas
Tony Tso
Faye Tso
Sue Williams
Sally Yazzie
Lola Yazzie
Polychrome Shoulder Jar (#102)

Ida Sahmie is a Navajo woman married into a Hopi-Tewa family. She has learned how to make pots in the technique and style of her husband’s family. However she prefers to use Navajo designs, especially Navajo Yeis, spiritual holy people. She has been actively potting since about 1990. In this piece she has combined her heritage of Navajo Yei or deity figures with husband’s potting relatives’ clay and shouldered-jar form.


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