Tyra Naha represents the fourth generation in a family of well known Hopi potters. She is a Native American

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Native American pottery

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Hopi

The Hopi are a federally recognized tribe of indigenous Native American people, who primarily live on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona. The Hopi area according to the 2000 census has a population of 6,946 people. Their Hopi language is one of the 30 of the Uto-Aztecan language...

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. While she is currently not as well known as her famous elders, she is technically very proficient. Her work has been featured at shows in Santa Fe and at the Heard Museum

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

• Paqua Naha - aka "Frog Woman" great-grandmother
• Helen Naha
  Helen Naha
  Helen Naha was the matriarch in a family of well known Hopi potters.She is the daughter-in-law of Paqua Naha . Helen was married to Paqua’s son Archie. She was mostly self-taught, following the style of her mother-in-law and sister-in-law Joy Navasie . Her designs are often based on fragments...
  
   - aka "Feather Woman" grandmother
• Rainy Naha - mother (properly Rainell)
• Sylvia Naha - aunt

External links

• Tyra Naha biographical sketch, plus another of her pots.
• More Tyra Naha pots (scroll down)