Steve Lucas

Hopi

Steve Lucas

Steve Lucas is a Hopi potter. His great-great-grandmother was Nampeyo of Hano, his great-grandmother Annie Healing Nampeyo, his grandmother Rachel Namingha Nampeyo, his mother Eleanor Lucas...

Born in 1955, he learned the traditional way to make pottery from his aunt, Dextra Quotskuyva Nampeyo. He has taken what he learned and expanded on it, earning many prize ribbons and awards since, incuding Best of Show at Santa Fe Indian Market in 1998.

Steve signs his pieces: S. Lucas with a corn plant and a koyemsi (mudhead clown: Steve is a member of the Koyemsi clan) symbol nearby. His wife is Yvonne Lucas, sister of Laguna potter Calvin Analla Jr. It was this connection that accidently caused Calvin to make his first mixed-clay pot (he needed a bit more clay one day to finish a piece and Steve gave him some of his Hopi clay). Everyone was so pleased with the results of that that Calvin now makes virtually nothing but mixed Hopi-and-Laguna clay pottery.

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Bird element designs on a polychrome marbleized clay jar

Polychrome marbleized clay jar with bird element designs
4.25 in H by 4.25 in Dia

Four direction eagletail design on a polychrome jar

Polychrome jar with four direction eagletail design
6.75 in H by 8.5 in Dia

Polychrome jar with geometric design
3.5 in H by 6 in Dia

Polychrome jar with bird element design
5 in H by 9 in Dia

Four direction bird element and geometric design on a polychrome jar

Polychrome jar with four direction bird element and geometric design
3 in H by 5.5 in Dia

Four direction shard design on a polychrome jar

Polychrome jar with four direction shard design
3.75 in H by 7.5 in Dia

Polychrome jar with geometric design
3 in H by 4 in Dia

Bird element design on a polychrome yellowware jar

Polychrome yellowware jar with bird element design
3.75 in H by 7.75 in Dia

Polychrome shard and geometric designs on a yellowware jar

Yellowware jar with polychrome shard and geometric designs
5.75 in H by 12 in Dia

Geometric design on a polychrome yellow ware jar

Polychrome yellow ware jar decorated with a geometric design
2 in H by 4 in Dia

Bird element, geometric design and fire clouds on a polychrome yellow ware jar

Polychrome yellow ware jar decorated with bird element and geometric design plus fire clouds
3.25 in H by 6.5 in Dia

Polychrome yellow ware jar decorated with a bird element design
4.25 in H by 11 in Dia

Stylized eagletail and geometric design on a polychrome yellow ware jar

Polychrome yellow ware jar with four-direction stylized eagletail and geometric design
4.75 in H by 10 in Dia

Red micaceous slip on the bottom and a bird element and geometric design above on a polychrome yellow ware jar

Polychrome yellow ware jar decorated with a bird element and geometric design above and red micaceous slip below
2.75 in H by 5.25 in Dia

Bird element and geometric design on a polychrome low-shouldered yellow ware jar

Polychrome yellow ware low-shouldered jar decorated with bird element and geometric design
6.25 in H by 13 in Dia

Bird element and geometric design on a polychrome jar

Polychrome jar with red bottom and marbleized top decorated with a bird element and geometric design
3 in H by 4.25 in Dia

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