This is a small jar by Darlene Nampeyo James.  She is a great-great-granddaughter of noted potter Nampeyo of Hano as a descendant through her eldest daughter Annie and Annie’s eldest daughter Rachel. Darlene’s mother is Ruth James, who is a sister of Dextra Quotskuyva, Eleanor Lucas, and Priscilla Namingha.  She learned to make pottery from her aunts, Dextra and Priscilla.  Her pottery is more traditional in style and she continues to use Hopi clay for her pottery and paint with bee-weed for the black.  This jar has a high shoulder and a turned out rim.  It is painted with a series of feathers around the body of the piece.  The red areas are stone polished.  The jar was traditionally fired to create slight blushes on the surface.  The piece  is signed on the bottom in the clay, “Darlene Nampeyo” with an ear of corn to denote the Corn Clan.  It is in very good condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair.