Hopi Mixed Media Student Drawing, 2001 Tennesmed Tabletop chests like these were

Tabletop chests like these were also often "apprentice chests

it seems very possible it was made instead to celebrate an ongoing friendship

Box measures 3 3/4" x 3 3/4" x 1 1/4"

which is part of what I think makes it feel so special

I'd guess this hand-thrown pottery vase dates to the 1970s

Hopi Mixed Media Student Drawing, 2001 Tennesmed Tabletop chests like these wereI purchased this drawing from a seller who had bought it along with a number of other pieces from the private collector of a teacher who had spent many years working on a Hopi reservation in Arizona, and believe it was made by a student of that teacher. I believe the figure represented in Tasap (Tasaf), the Hopi tribes representation of a Navajo god, beautifully detailed and decorated here in a manner that seems a hybrid of traditional and