Joy Navasie, 2nd Frog Woman

1919 Born

2012 Died

BIOGRAPHY

Joy Navasie began making pots in the Hopi-Tewa tradition when she was 17 and continued to work until her retirement in 1995. After her mother’s death Joy Navasie continued to develop and work with the white pottery style her mother had pioneered shortly before her death.

 Navasie, a Hopi-Tewa potter, learned to make pots from her mother, Paqua Naha, the First Frog Woman. 

They both marked their pots with a drawing of a frog with one difference, Joy Navasie’s frogs have webbed feet while her mothers have straight toes.

Public Collections

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California

Bibliography

Dillingham, Rick. Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1004.

Southern Highland Craft Guild