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Tyra Naha (or Tyra Naha-Black, or Tyra Naha Tawawina) represents the 4th generation in a family of well-known Hopi potters. She is a Native American
Tyra Naha biographical sketch
plus another of her pots. {{DEFAULTSORT:Naha, Tyra Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Hopi people Native American potters Artists from Arizona American women ceramists American ceramists Native American women artists Women potters 21st-century American women artists 21st-century ceramists 21st-century Native Americans 21st-century Native American women Native American people from Arizona
Tyra Naha (or Tyra Naha-Black, or Tyra Naha Tawawina) represents the 4th generation in a family of well-known Hopi potters. She is a Native American potter
A potter is someone who makes pottery.
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from the Hopi Nation, Arizona
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) While she is currently not as well known as her famous elders, she is technically nicely proficient. Her work has been featured at shows in Santa Fe and at the Heard Museum
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, and appears in ''The Art of the Hopi''.
Tyra Naha's daughter, Amber Naha-Black, is also an award-winning potter.
Tyra signs her pots with a feather and a spider glyph. The feather represents her lineage to the Naha family through her grandmother, who signed with a feather glyph. The spider is her clan symbol.
See also
* PotterHelen Naha
Helen Naha (1922–1993) was the matriarch in a family of well known Hopi Pottery, potters.
Biography
Helen Naha was the daughter-in-law of Paqua Naha (the first Frog Woman). Helen was married to Paqua’s son Archie. She was mostly self-taught, ...
– aka "Feather Woman," her grandmother
References
Additional Resources
*Dillingham, Rick. ''Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery''. Foreword by J. J. Brody. University of New Mexico Press, (reprint edition) 1994. * Graves, Laura. ''Thomas Varker Keam, Indian Trader''. University of Oklahoma Press, 1998.External links
Tyra Naha biographical sketch
plus another of her pots. {{DEFAULTSORT:Naha, Tyra Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Hopi people Native American potters Artists from Arizona American women ceramists American ceramists Native American women artists Women potters 21st-century American women artists 21st-century ceramists 21st-century Native Americans 21st-century Native American women Native American people from Arizona