Priscilla Namingha Nampeyo (1924–2008) was a renowned Hopi-Tewa potter and a member of one of the most celebrated pottery families in Native American art. A great-granddaughter of the legendary Hopi-Tewa potter Nampeyo of Hano, she continued the family tradition of creating finely crafted pottery inspired by ancestral forms and designs.

Born into the Nampeyo pottery lineage, Namingha was the eldest daughter of Rachel Namingha and the sister of potters Dextra Quotskuyva, Lillian Gonzales, and Eleanor Lucas. Raised in Polacca at First Mesa, Arizona, she learned pottery-making by observing her mother and was also taught traditional techniques by her great-grandmother Nampeyo during her childhood. Her own daughters later continued the fa...