Nampeyo
Artist, Visual Artist
1860 – 1942
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Who was Nampeyo?
Iris Nampeyo was a Hopi - Tewa potter who lived on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona. She received the English name Iris as an infant, but was better known by her Tewa name, Num-pa-yu, meaning "snake that does not bite".
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