Hopi Mixed Media Student Drawing, 2001 badger which made some good ones

which made some good ones

which is partially torn away

This very fun-to-wear and finely made enamel on copper pin perfectly embodies atomic age design

late 1960s-70s

The form of the blocks also allows for easily sliding one out along the groove without disrupting the rest of the structure

Hopi Mixed Media Student Drawing, 2001 badger which made some good onesI 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