Sikyátki pottery

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Sikyátki pottery is a distinctive prehistoric Hopi ceramic tradition known for its fine craftsmanship, polychrome designs, and influential geometric and stylized motifs that inspired later Hopi pottery styles.

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Sikyatki Revival style pottery 1
Sikyátki pottery canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Hopi pottery style
archaeological culture material
ceramic tradition
archaeologicalCulture Ancestral Puebloan
linked to: Ancestral Puebloans
archaeologicalSite Sikyátki ruin
associatedWith First Mesa
Hopi ancestral villages
collection Museum of Northern Arizona
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Smithsonian Institution
various Southwestern U.S. museums
color black paint designs
red paint designs
yellow ware
culture Hopi
linked to: Hopi people
decoration polychrome painting
ethnicGroup Hopi people
feature carefully smoothed surfaces
fine craftsmanship
high-quality firing
thin walls
hasForm bowls
dippers
effigy vessels
jars
influenced Hopi Revival pottery
linked to: Hopi pottery

Hopi-Tewa pottery
linked to: Hopi pottery

Nampeyo’s pottery style
inspiredBy earlier Hopi ceramic traditions
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Arizona
United States
material clay
motifType abstracted animal forms
avian motifs
cloud motifs
feather motifs
geometric motifs
kiva step motifs
stylized motifs
namedAfter Sikyátki
region Hopi Mesas
linked to: Third Mesa
surfaceTreatment polished
slipped
technique coil-and-scrape
timePeriod circa 14th–17th centuries CE
late prehistoric period in the American Southwest
use ceremonial use
domestic use
ritual use

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Hopi pottery influencedBy Sikyátki pottery
Nampeyo knownFor Sikyatki Revival style pottery
linked to: Sikyátki pottery