Featured Little seed pot with worn paint, Who made it?

Hi all, i found this little 4 1/2" pot at a yard sale. it was only a dollar so what the heck.
A lot of the designs are very worn and looks like it might have been too close to a fire and one side is very brown.
Any help with the maker and artist would be appreciated.
Mikey

 

I'm not getting a NA vibe from it, it seems too shiny, and the shape is odd.
Mexico, maybe?
But I could be wrong... maybe Hopi, spider clan?
Clearly I don't know anything!
It's cool, though. I woulda grabbed it, too.

 

Thanks @stracci
That was my first thought so I'll search down that alley and see what I can find.
Mikey

 

I looked at some Hopi pottery just now and there is a Spider clan......

 

I think @stracci knows a lot...

The designs and colors seem about right for Hopi, but the shape is unusual and is more common in Mexican Mata Ortiz. Hopi pottery generally has a signature painted on, and not incised, which is more common in Mata Ortiz.

Some fading, or, more accurately, places where the pigments have literally rubbed off, is not uncommon. I have pots like that.

And the browner area, called a fire cloud, is an indication it was fired in a traditional outdoor kiln.

 

An elegant little vase.

 

Update @stracci and @Potteryplease
It is Hopi and the artist/potter has been identified as
Kevin Navasie. I've only found one searching, but the sig matches
Mikey

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1262795439...zlbu8c3Qie&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
The one I found.

 

Good sleuthing @916Bulldogs123 !

 

One clue to distinguish traditional Hopi/Pueblo from Mata Ortiz may be a difference in the firing technique. Traditional Pueblo potters fire in a simple open fire, where the fuel can sometimes contact the pots, creating fire clouds. Mata Ortiz potters "used to fire a single pot inside a sagger in a garbage can using wood as the fuel", but now may use electric kilns. Both techniques protect the pots from direct contact with the fuel.
https://ceramicartsnetwork.org/pott...aking-illustrated-article/Finding-Mata-Ortiz#

 

Also, Mata Ortiz pottery usually has a rounded bottom, because that is the shape of the molds they traditionally use to start the pots (the rest of the pot is traditionally hand coiled). Hopi pottery has a flat bottom.

 

Actually the signature doesn't really match. If you look carefully on the pot with the painted signature, there appears to be 3 "A's" not 2 in the last name, and the spider image isn't included.

Which brings up another issue, which I should have mentioned in my earlier post. Hopi potters don't incise their names on their pottery. Especially after the pot is fired, as appears was done in this case. If incised before the pot was fired (which is how incised signatures are traditionally made) it would have a slightly darker look, unlike the stark white of the fired clay.

The pot itself is carefully made and decorated, but the traditional firing turned it into what a traditional Hopi potter would consider a "second" and unsalable.

Maybe someone thought it worthy, at least, of a lesser well-known potter's "signature."

All I can say is that it is definitely Hopi, traditionally fired, and made by a potter who had experience and craftsmanship. But the questions surrounding it do raise some issues.

 

That's probably why I only got $20.00
for it.Sold last week
Mikey

 

Oh, no! A lot of time and energy went into creating it. To say nothing of the time spent since then. Disappointing for the potter, you, and all of us!