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    Elva Nampeyo

    American potter (1926–1985)

    Elva Nampeyo

    Born1926 (1926)

    First Mesa, Arizona

    Died1985 (aged 58–59)
    NationalityAmerican
    Known forPottery
    SpouseRichard Tewaguna

    Elva Nampeyo (1926–1985) (also known as Elva Tewaguna) was an American studio potter.[1]

    Biography

    Elva Nampeyo was born 1926 in the Hopi-Tewa Corn Clan atop HopiFirst Mesa, Arizona.[2] Her parents were Fannie Nampeyo and Vinton Polacca.[3] Her grandmother Nampeyo had led a revival of ancient traditional pottery and established a family tradition of pottery making.

    As a child Elva would watch her grandmother make pottery and later her mother taught Elva and her siblings the craft of pottery making.[2]

    Nampayo went on to marry Richard Tewaguna and had five children, four of whom, Neva, Elton, Miriam and Adelle followed in the family pottery making tradition.

    All sign their work with their first names foll