Hopi Mixed Media Student Drawing, 2001 Tennesmed Tabletop chests like these were

Tabletop chests like these were also often "apprentice chests

Succinctly motivating when displayed on the DO side

I think they are such fine and beautiful objects

with dynamically pointed handle

which is part of what I think makes it feel so special

Hopi Mixed Media Student Drawing, 2001 Tennesmed Tabletop chests like these wereI 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