Polacca, Barbara

Barbara Polacca is a Hopi-Tewa potter of the Spider Clan who first appeared in the marketplace around 1970. She likes to make black-and-red-on-yellow seed pots, effigies on lidded jars, black-on-orange canteens, and polychrome bowls and tiles. Her favorite designs include feathers, the Dawa face (Sun face), parrots, clouds, bird elements, and germinating and sprouting plants.

She signs most of her pieces with “B. Polacca” or “Barbara Mara Polacca” but sometimes she’ll use “Barbara Nampeyo.”