Elva Nampeyo

[1] Elva Nampeyo was born 1926 in the Hopi-Tewa Corn Clan atop Hopi First Mesa, Arizona.

[2] Nampayo went on to marry Richard Tewaguna and had five children, four of whom, Neva, Elton, Miriam and Adelle followed in the family pottery making tradition.

She specialized in black and red on yellow bowls and jars with traditional migration designs and eagle motifs.

[3] Elva took great pleasure in making pottery and could form as many as eight pots a day.

[3] During her later years, her daughter Adelle would assist her in polishing, decorating and firing her pottery.