Lois Gutierrez is one of the few potters who continue to create traditional polychrome (more than 3 colors of clay) pottery at Santa Clara Pueblo.  This is an ope bowl with braided clay handles. The bowl is apitne don the top with large interlcoking birds.  Each bird is highly detailed and the piece is painted with at least EIGHT different colors of clay!  It was then traditionally fired. It is signed on the indented bottom of the jar, “Lois”.   It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair.