Rondina Huma has certainly been one of the most influential Hopi potters working today.  Since her two-time “Best of Show” award at Santa Fe Indian Market, 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.  This wide bowl is fully designed and painted.  The rim has a very intricate triangular pattern and above the shoulder is a mesa design in a burgundy clay slip.  The small areas area each individually painted with bee-weed (black) and then highlighted with a polished red clay slip.  Each of the sections is hand painted and was inspired by pottery shards.  On this bowl the shard design is very tight and very small.  Rondina says that she tries to not duplicate the same “shard” patterns on the same vessel!  The tight patterns have become more and more intricate and detailed in each passing year.  Amazingly, the inside of the bowl is also fully polished!   The bowl is traditionally fired so that creates the color variations on the surface.  It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration or repair.  It is signed on the bottom in the clay.