Dextra Quotskuyva, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Dextra Quotskuyva

Native American potter and artist

Date of Birth: 07-Sep-1928

Place of Birth: Polacca, Arizona, United States

Profession: potter

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Dextra Quotskuyva Nampeyo (born September 7, 1928, Polacca, Arizona) is a Native American potter and artist.
She is 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.