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This seed jar is low and wide with an almost flat top that rises just so slightly to a rim that curves upward.  A wide black framing line just below the rim and another one just below the mid-body set the boundaries for the design.  Mark chose two different birds-which he described as a Quail (see top knot) and a Falcon (see beak).  On the two birds he colored a single tail feather with a blue/white clay he discovered at the Awatowi ruins at Hopi. 

The designs that alternate between the pair of birds is a more traditional rendering of the Sikyatki split tail feather seen on pottery by Nampeyo which she reintroduced from Sikyatki wares.

Read more about this pottery here..