Plateau Beaded Wall Pocket With Bluebird Gavel wide bowl with four oval

wide bowl with four oval designs spaced around the body and a decorative band below the rim

and sterling

by Leah Nampeyo

This is a highly collectible piece by one of the finest traditional Hopi silversmiths

The designs on this bowl are geometric and 5 tadpoles

Plateau Beaded Wall Pocket With Bluebird Gavel wide bowl with four ovalThis is a very unusual and visual piece. It has two beaded panels, one with a large blue bird on a branch and the other with a heart shaped single flower, both of which sit in a yellow field. These panels are spaced apart on a black wool cloth and between the two beaded panels and above the smaller one are two red wool rectangles which creates a very dramatic piece. There is some loss of the red cotton binding above the blue bird panel but otherwise