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Previous IssueArizona Highways, July 1957Next IssueArizona Highways, September 1957CreatorArizona Highways MagazinePublisherArizona Department of TransportationVolume33Issue8SubjectArizona Department of TransportationArizona highways--HistoryDate Original1957-08Date Range1950s (1950-1959)TypeTextOriginal FormatMagazines (periodicals)LanguageEnglishContributing InstitutionArizona Highways MagazineCollectionArizona Highways Online Rights StatementIN COPYRIGHT. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Except for quotations used in articles, reviews and listings, no part of these magazines may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from Arizona Highways.

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	[...]d that much has happened in the past decade since EMRY KoPTA, ScuLPTOR OF I N DIANS[...]
	[...]he footsteps of a distinguished father. The elder Kopta stop at Gallup, an[...]His son Emry studied the violin under able teachers. n[...]ams was a tremendous collection was Emry Kopta, destined to spend many years in the[...]sculptor of Indians. for young Kopta. His father had acquired a ranch in the b[...]or, and several heavy and com- Kopta had planned a career as violinist, followi[...]
	EMRY KOPT A-SCULPTOR OF IN DJ ANS[...]shed clay which she used was made available to Kopta. Her Finally one day, when the door was[...]his last stay that the trip to the Hubbell Kopta's first model was a young matron who lived[...]ere Arizona. Kopta was not. So they arranged a vacation trip son[...]Christian faith. While Kopta was living in Polacca, Sieup-[...]renzo made the trip Early in his work Kopta became acquainted with a he-la died. In[...]. They be- he be buried "in a box." Kopta and another white man[...]he mesa, saw a part of a ceremony, visited with Kopta's first studio at Polaccct[...]time was up, Emry Kopta had made a decision.[...]Pavatea, and Tom also liked Kopta. The friendship[...]a new house. While it was under way Kopta rented a roo[...]corner room was assigned to Kopta and remained his Kopta's favorite model, Co-ya-wy-ema[...]ir food. Sometimes he worked in of W alpi. Kopta twice modeled his head. One of these hou[...]vatea fixed up a better building next Kopta made frequent use of his camera in connection[...]ed with that position and with Pavatea home where Kopta lived to the trading post, and this was the[...]From the beginning and throughout his career Kopta ture reference. This might be a study embody[...]is home in Phoenix, the whereabouts of two Kopta's art was Saa-ci, head of the Antelope Society of[...]fortunate. In the villages of addition he and Kopta worked together on other photo- Ceremony[...]of the women is graphs. One time Harry and Kopta found an eagle and name, curiously, is[...]feat hers play a part in cere- lost his sight. Kopta did a striking head of Saa-ci, and this[...]
	[...]e a type of earring that The head that Kopta did was finished in black terra mirably serv[...]blanket or quilt, a part of which a circle, and Kopta modeled his head wearing the earrings portray[...]Another small figure done by Kopta was The Medi- passes around her forehead,[...]sig- One of the engaging subjects for Kopta's work was cine Man, a full-length in a dr[...]id a As so often happens, the work of Emry Kopta was recovered from ancient ruins are counterpart[...]ble In addition to a noteworthy head, Kopta did a mask ished work, sometimes as a study[...]ilent con- and abdomen and the pose of head. Kopta photographed But whoever happens[...]t but for its Pinyon . It was this same clay that Kopta used. Descendants called The Thinker. With Har[...]layed a prominent part in First Mesa model, Kopta did a terra cotta of this figure. Harry of[...]
	[...]the o lder Hopis today if he knew Emry Kopta. "You living at Polacca, his u[...]Kopta agreed to do t he War Memoria l and travelled eat. Kopta modeled her head, made replicas in te1-ra cotta,[...]While kopta was at work on the memorial he met[...]mercial under- In his studio Kopta designed and modeled t he ped- graceful[...]takings came along. For several summers Kopta and his estal, massive but .gracefu[...]in the studio, the artist cooperation of Mr s. Emry K opta, widow of t he sculptor. All of and mo[...]and the Hear d Museum. T he artist was Emry Kopta, sculptor of Indians. as many[...]sired, t hus making possible additional After Kopta had been living and working in t he Hopi[...]

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