Rainy Naha learned to make pottery from her mother, Helen “Featherwoman” Naha.  Rainy continues in a similar style using a white clay slip as the foundation for her work.  This jar is one of her tall cylindrical forms.  The jar has four hummingbirds, or more likely, hummingbird moths, painted as the design.  Each pair of hummingbirds are separated by a corn plant design in the center and a linear rain design on the rim.  Each bird has a variety of designs derived from classic Hopi pottery.  The black is bee-weed and the colors are all-natural clay slips Rainy finds near her home. Each of her pieces is also traditionally fired which gives the white a very pearlescent appearance.  It is signed on the bottom with a feather and “Rainy”.