Huma, Rosetta

Rosetta Huma (1919-1987) was the mother of Wilfred Huma and former mother-in-law of Rondina Huma. A close neighbor of Marcella Kahe (who lived two doors away), she was a Hopi potter from Sichomovi village. In her earlier years she knew Nampeyo of Hano but Nampeyo went blind while Rosetta was still a child. Rosetta didn’t start to make pottery until after Nampeyo had passed on. Then she was making pottery almost until the day she died.

Rosetta mostly made black-and-red-on-yellow vases, bowls, wedding vases, canteens, rattles and ladles. Her favorite designs included the Nachwach-clan handshake, eagle, parrot and other bird elements, and butterflies.