Pot with lid - Hopi - U.S.

The Hopi (short for Hopituh Shinumu – “the peaceful/friendly people”) are the westernmost group of the Pueblo Indians. They live in northeastern Arizona in the southwestern United States, the majority of the Hopi are part of the Hopi Tribe of Arizona, whose 12,600 square kilometer reservation lies today in the heart of the Navajo Nation Reservation of the Navajo (Diné) at the edge of the Painted Desert. More Hopi have been part of the Colorado River Indian Tribes (Mohave, Chemehuevi, Hopi and Navajo) in the borderlands of Arizona and California since 1945.

Earlier they were also called Moki or Moqui by the Spaniards, probably an adaptation of the Zuni name for the Hopi as Mu:kwi.

The Hopi call their traditional homeland at the southwestern edge of Black Mesa Tuuwanasave (“the center / the midpoint of the universe”). Most of their Pueblo settlements lie on three high mesas (First, Second and Third Mesa) rising from the Colorado Plateau; they also inhabit several villages and settlements beyond them, all spread over an area of 56 kilometers in circumference.

The land of the Hopi is a dry high upland. The Hopi manage to coax a great variety of agricultural products, especially corn of many varieties, from this inhospitable soil. Since the turn of the millennium, water and electricity supply to the residential areas has been expanded. The Oraibi Pueblo on Third Mesa is probably the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in the United States.

Some of the Southwest’s finest ceramics, jewelry, and basketry come from the Hopi, and they are also known for their Kachina carving and silversmithing. Today Hopi artists also express themselves through painting, glassmaking, photography, and the visual arts (sculpture) and other contemporary art forms.

The offered pot with lid was made around 1930/40, has a diameter of about 17 cm and is 22 cm high.