Garnet Pavatea, Flower Girl

1915 Born

1981 Died

PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE

—Pueblo Potter

BIOGRAPHY 

Garnet Pavatea was a Hopi-Tewa potter who lived and worked in the Tewa village on First Mesa, Arizona. She made the traditional forms she had learned from other potters in her village. There are two colors of clay available to Hopi potters, tan and red. 

Pavatea chose to work with red clay which is more difficult to polish and fire. Her pieces were decorated with traditional Hopi-Tewa symbols using black and red slip. She was also known to leave her pieces undecorated with triangular indentations around the rim.

Public Collections

Heard Museum of Native Cultures and Art, Phoenix, Arizona

Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona

Bibliography

Christy Turner, Photographer. http://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/cdm/ref/collection/mnaha/id/14. Flagstaff, AZ: Museum of Northern Arizona, 1956. 

Museum of Northern Arizona. Hopi and Hopi-Tewa pottery. Flagstaff, AZ: The Museum of Northern Arizona Press, 1993. 

Wade, Edwin L., and Allan Cooke. Canvas of Clay: Seven Centuries of Hopi Ceramic Art. Sedona, AZ: El Otro Lado, 2012. 

Southern Highland Craft Guild