13 Facts About Daisy Hooee

Daisy Hooee was a Hopi-Tewa potter and was born in 1906 or 1910.

Daisy Hooee was a granddaughter of Nampeyo and the daughter of Nampeyo's daughter, Annie Healing.

Daisy Hooee learned to paint pottery from her grandmother before she was ten years old.

Daisy Hooee discovered that she had cataracts and might go blind around age ten while she was attending Phoenix Indian School.

Daisy Hooee returned to the Hopi community when her mother, Annie Healing, began to have health issues.

Daisy Hooee settled in Polacca, Arizona, where she worked as a cook in a school.

Daisy Hooee's son, Raymond Naha, who became an artist, was born in Polacca in 1930 and died in 1975.

Daisy Hooee later divorced Naha, and moved to Zuni, where she married Leo Poblano, a silversmith, in 1938.

Daisy Hooee is featured in a 1981 documentary, The Pueblo Presence, by Hugh and Suzanne Johnston and produced by WNET.

Daisy Hooee was trained to create pottery by her grandmother, Nampeyo, and her earlier work reflects that style which is based on the Sikyatki.

Daisy Hooee was influenced by the style of pots excavated at Awatovi.

Daisy Hooee lectured and did demonstrations of her work, with one museum, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, importing 400 pounds of sheep dung for the pottery oven during her appearance in 1974.

Daisy Hooee has work in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.