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   Helen Naha (Feather Woman) and Joy Navasie (Frog Woman) were sisters-in-law.  Helen Naha married Joy Navasie's brother, Archie Naha. Helen was known for her stark black-on-white Hopi pottery early in her career and for exquisite polychrome pots in later times. Her hallmark is a feather.

This wonderful wide and low bowl is slipped in traditional white clay, over which is painted the decoration in strong black natural pigment.  The design is a mixture of shapes

Read more about this Hopi Pottery here..