Karen Abeita is known for her traditional and innovative Hopi-Tewa pottery.  This large, wide bowl is painted with bee-weed (black) and a red clay slip and then traditionally fired.  Karen is known for her very intricately painted pottery. The jar is stunning with a very wide shape and note how flat surface.  There is a Butterfly Maiden in one section. She is surrounded by intricately designed shard which are both painted and then incised on the edges!  Opposite is a section with a classic Hopi-Tewa bird.  Separating the two sections are larger panels with Hopi design, birds, and geometrics.  Interestingly, the jar is designed in three panels, not four, although it appears to be four sections.   The jar was traditionally fired to create the blushes.  It is signed on the bottom in bee-weed, “Karen Abeita”.  It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration or repair.  It received a blue ribbon at the 2008 Santa Fe Indian Market.  The ribbon is signed by Al Qoyawayma and Clarence Cruz.