Filters: Navajo (Diné)
Polychrome Shoulder Jar (#102)
Ida Sahme (b.1960) — Navajo (Diné)
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.