P340 Navajo Susie Williams Crank. bowl with kiva design etching. 4" x 7"

$230.00

Native American Navajo Susie Wiliams Crank bowl, with wider midsection, incised kiva designs around shoulder, natural fire burns.

Susie Crank learned the technique of pitch pine pottery making from her mother, Rose Williams. (Her sisters, Alice Cling and Sue Williams, also make the pitch pine Navajo style pottery.) Susie Crank’s pots are hand coiled. She burnishes the entire pot with a smooth stone as repeatedly as 10-15 times to give it a beautiful smooth finish. The pottery is then fired in the open air and covered with pine sap sealing it and giving a shimmer to the pot.

Susie Crank is married to Lorenzo Spencer, with whom she has shared some of her knowledge of pitch pot creation.
4" x 7" #P340

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Attributiom of work of the Williams sisters is complicated by the fact that there are two named Sue who are potters. One is Sue Ann Williams and one goes by the name Susie Crank. A third sister also is potter. Her name is Alice Cling, who married Jerry Cling, Then, there is Lorraine Williams, not a blood sister, but a sister in-law, having married one of Rose’s sons.