Hopi Polychrome Jar with Birds and Geometric Designs [SOLD]

Made in a quintessential style for modern Hopi potter Rainy Naha, this polychrome jar contains a white-tan slip surrounded with birds and various geometric patterns within the birds. The birds are in a whirling shape around the body of the jar, and each faces another so that one looks up and one looks down. The patterns include diagonal lines, swirls, checkerboards, cones, zigzag steps, and many more.

Around the bird patterns is a brownish speckled background, which is even included on small parts of the birds themselves. The colors of the jar include dark brown, light brown, red, orange, yellow, and white. The body is especially appealing as it juts out in a dramatic style.

The jar is signed on the bottom Rainy with a beautiful feather next to it. This is the same feather hallmark used by her mother, Helen.

Rainell Naha (1949- ) Feather Woman is a daughter of Helen Naha (the first Feather Woman) and the granddaughter of Paqua Naha (the first Frog Woman). Her siblings are Burel, Sylvia, and Rechenda.

Condition: very good condition

Provenance: this Hopi Polychrome Jar with Birds and Geometric Designs is from a private collection

Recommended Reading: Modern Hopi Pottery by Katherine A. Sikorski

TAGS:  Helen Naha (Feather Woman), Paqua Naha (Frog Woman), Rainy Naha, Sylvia Naha, Hopi Pueblo, Contemporary Pottery, Rainy Naha