Daisy Hooee Nampeyo

Daisy Hooee Nampeyo (1906 or 1910 – 1994 or 1998) was a Hopi-Tewa potter. She studied at . Hooee taught pottery making on the Zuni reservation and helped preserve the traditional techniques she learned from her grandmother, Nampeyo.

Biography Hooee was a Hopi-Tewa potter and was born in 1906 or 1910. She was a granddaughter of Nampeyo and the daughter of Nampeyo's daughter, Annie Healing. She learned to paint pottery from her grandmother before she was ten years old.

Hooee discovered that she had cataracts and might go blind around age ten while she was attending Phoenix Indian School. Anita Baldwin, an arts patron, provided surgery for Hooee in California and then went on to give her a formal education. Hooee lived with Baldwin for around ten years. Hooee returned to the Hopi community when her mother, Annie Healing, began to have health issues. Her son, Raymond Naha, who also became an artist, was born in Polacca in 1930 and died in 1975. Hooee married her first husband, Ray Naha, in 1935. Later, she married another silversmith, Sidney Hooee (1915–1998). She is also featured in a 1981 documentary, The Pueblo Presence, by Hugh and Suzanne Johnston and produced by WNET.

Work Hooee's work has several influences. She was trained to create pottery by her grandmother, Nampeyo, and her earlier work reflects that style which is based on the Sikyatki. Her work was polychrome. It was important to Hooee that the craft of making pottery through traditional methods did not die out.

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