Florence Aragon was one of the great traditional Acoma potters.  This water jar is indicative of the influence of her pottery and the continuation of traditional designs and forms. The jar is from the 1980s.  It is coil-built and painted with bee-weed (black) and red clay slip.  The shape is a classic water jar or “olla”. The high shoulder and sloping short neck are part of this form. The jar has a step or lightning design in red and it is separated by leaf patterns. The leaf patterns spiral around the jar.  The bottom of the jar is indented in the traditional manner when the pots were made to be worn on the head to carry water!  The jar is signed on the bottom, “F. Aragon”.  It is in exellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair.