Ramon Howato is a son of noted potter Diana Tahbo.  He learned to make pottery from his uncle, Mark Tahbo.  This seedpot is coil built, painted with bee-weed (black) and traditionally fired.  The piece is fully painted with a variety of cloud, rain and other Sikyatki inspired designs.  The painting seems both traditional in style and yet with a stylistic sense of designs matching the form.  The seedpot is signed on the bottom in the clay, “Ramon Howato” and a pipe, as he is “Tobacco Clan”.