About the Artist

Roberta Youvella Silas married a Hopi and lives at Polacca, First Mesa on the Hopi reservation in northern Arizona. She was active as a potter from 1960 through the early 1980s. Her traditional bowls, jars and piki bowls often incorporate bands of Sikyatki designs, parrots, lightning, clouds and feathers. She is cited in Hopi-Tewa Pottery by Gregory Schaff. Her daughters are also potters.