Polacca, Anita

Born in 1929, Anita Polacca was a Hopi potter from the First Mesa village of Sichomovi. She learned to make pottery as she grew up, by watching and working with her mother, Violet Huma. Anita was an active potter from the early 1940s to at least 2002. She primarily made red-and-black-on-yellow bowls, vases, seed pots and cylinders. Some of her pieces had lids. Her favorite designs to paint were Sikyátki Revival designs: bird elements, prayer feathers, clouds and the bird-hanging-from-sky-band motif.

Some of Anita’s work is in the object collection of the Heard Museum and some is in the collections of the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff.