Event Details (U.S. National Park Service)

Fee:

Free.

Location: LAT/LONG: 36.000000, -112.000000

Desert View is located, 23 miles (37 km) east of Grand Canyon Village on Desert View Drive (Arizona State Route 64), and 30 miles (48 km) west of Cameron, Arizona, on Arizona State Route 64. How to get to the Watchtower: Starting from the main Desert View parking area, a short .25 mile (.4 km) walk takes you past the restroom building, the Market/Deli and the Trading Post. The four story watchtower is located at Desert View Point.

Repeating Event

Days:

Every day

Dates:

April 09, 2024 to April 11, 2024

Time:

9:00 AM

Duration:

7 hours

Type of Event

Cultural/Craft Demonstration

Description

Stop by the Desert View Watchtower on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 9 am to 4 pm to join our Cultural Demonstrators to talk, watch, and appreciate their crafts. This week we are featuring Bobby Silas, Hopi Potter.

Bobby is from the village of Bacavi. He has been creating pottery since he was 14 years old. Bobby’s inspiration for his pottery designs comes from prehistoric Hopi wares dating back to around 500 years ago – known as skiyatki polychrome. Each piece is hand-coiled, painted with native clay slips, and a bee-weed plant variant. Then it is fired fired with lignite coal, the traditional method. Bobby has won awards for his distinctive and creative renderings of ancestral pottery.

The purpose of the Cultural Demonstration Program is to give members of the 11 traditionally associated tribes a voice at Grand Canyon by supporting interactions with the public through demonstrations of traditional native practices and crafts. The program began in 2014 and continues to grow to this day.

This series is made possible with grants from Grand Canyon Conservancy.

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