Dextra Quotskuyva
Dextra Quotskuyva Nampeyo | |
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Photo of Dextra Quotskuyva taken on September 20, 2018, in Kykotsmovi, Arizona. | |
| Born | September 6, 1928 Polacca, Arizona, U.S. |
| Died | February 2019 (aged 90) |
| Education | Great-granddaughter of Hopi–Tewa potter Nampeyo |
| Known for | Potter and artist |
| Awards | Proclaimed an "Arizona Living Treasure," 1994; Arizona State Museum Lifetime Achievement Award, 1998 |
Dextra Quotskuyva Nampeyo (September 6, 1928 – February 2019) was a Native American potter and artist. She was in the fifth generation of a distinguished ancestral line of Hopi potters.
In 1994 Dextra Quotskuyva was proclaimed an "Arizona Living Treasure," and in 1998 she received the first Arizona State Museum Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2001, the Wheelwright Museum organized a 30-year retrospective exhibition of Quotskuyva's pottery, and in 2004, she received the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts Lifetime Achievement award.