Hopi Mixed Media Student Drawing, 2001 Tennesmed with dynamically pointed handle

with dynamically pointed handle

The tray measures 9 7/8" x 7" x9/16"

I'd guess this hand-thrown pottery vase dates to the 1970s

it seems very possible it was made instead to celebrate an ongoing friendship

However I have found no other like this one

Hopi Mixed Media Student Drawing, 2001 Tennesmed with dynamically pointed handleI purchased this drawing from a seller who had bought it along with a number of other pieces from the private collector of a teacher who had spent many years working on a Hopi reservation in Arizona, and believe it was made by a student of that teacher. I believe the figure represented in Tasap (Tasaf), the Hopi tribes representation of a Navajo god, beautifully detailed and decorated here in a manner that seems a hybrid of traditional and