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Faye Avatchoya was a Hopi-Tewa potter who created and sold her work between the 1930s and the 1960s, a period in which Hopi pottery was very popular and primarily created for the tourist trade. Avatchoya lived in First Mesa, a pueblo on the Hopi Indian Reserve in Northeast Arizona. It was here where she created most of her well known work, of which she is most noted for the black and white on red bowls as well as redware bowls. In the late 1990s Avatchoya was acknowledged for her craftsmanship at the Heard Museum in Phoenix as part of the “Following the Sun and Moon-Hopi Katsina Dolls” exhibition. Three of Avatchoya’s bowls, here in the MOA, were collected by the Native American anthropologist Edward P. Dozier in 1952. Faye also worked closely with anthropologist Leopold J. Popspili.
MOACAT biography image: Faye Avatchoya, Tewa Potter, 1957, Courtesy of the Museum of Northern Arizona, Negative #9532.

Born: 1894
Died: 1975