This is a large and highly detailed seedpot by Grace Medicine Flower.  It is from 1985.  It is fully polished and fully designed. Five butterflies are encircling the seedpot.  Each has a different coloration for their wings.  They are surrounded by swirling feathers, flowers, and plants.  The piece is highlighted with green, blues, and white clay slips.  The various colors are striking against the highly polished red.  The use of additional colors at this time in her work was a very brief period when Joseph Lonewolf (her brother) had given her some colorful clays to use on her pottery.  Interestingly, Grace would always etch her pottery before it was fired.  It is an elegant jar in both form and design.  The piece is signed on the bottom in the clay, “Grace Medicine Flower”. It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks restoration or repair.

“We have a lot of hummingbirds by our house. Who knows about a hummingbird on a piece of pottery? They are so tiny and so little. Looking at the hummingbirds and flowers or the squirrels like we have next door. Maybe even that you can put on a piece of pottery. Anything that comes to your mind that you might think would look good on the pottery is fine.” Grace Medicine Flower, Spoken Through Clay