Rondina Huma has certainly been one of the most influential Hopi potters working today.  Since her “Best of Show” award at Santa Fe Indian Market in the early 1990’s, her tight style and intricately painted pottery has changed the face of contemporary Hopi pottery.   Each piece is coil built, fully stone polished and painted with native clays and bee-weed (black), and native fired.  What is interesting about Rondina’s pottery is that it is always polished on the inside as well as the outside!  This bowl is from the early 1990’s.  It has her classic shard patterns but they are larger than on her later work. Rondina has said that her goal is to not repeat the same design twice on a bowl!  The rim has a rain pattern with a red polished design.  The piece is traditionally fired outdoors to create the coloration in the clay.  It is in very good condition with no chips, cracks, restoration or repair.  It is signed on the bottom in the clay.