This is a highly decorated canteen by Helen “Feather Woman” Naha.  She was known for her traditional white-ware pottery.  This canteen is from the 1980s.  It is flat on the back and round on the front.  The canteen has a swirling bird as the design.  Above the bird are cloud and wind designs.  We know it is from the 1980s because of the colorations of the clay.  It was only in the late 1980s that she began to sue the pink and yellow clays and make her work more colorful.  It is painted with bee-weed (black) and clay slips.  It was traditionally fired and there are slight color variations from the firing.  It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration or repair.  It is signed on the bottom with her hallmark feather.