This is a classic jar by Rainy Naha.  The jar is coil-built and thin-walled.  This design, which included “interlocking” or “tumbling” birds, originated from Rainy Naha. This piece has a very round shoulder and a sloping neck.  This shape allows both the top and bottom parrots to be easily seen. The piece is fully polished with a white clay slip and then there are five sections of interlocking hummingbirds above the shoulder and five below, for a total of ten.  Each bird is painted with various Hopi-Tewa designs and then additional clay slips for the color.  Note the variety of designs in the birds and the four directional color sets creating “feathers”.  This is a striking piece that is fully painted.  Rainy uses bee-weed (black) and natural clay slips for her colors. The jar is traditionally fired.  Rainy learned to make pottery from her mother, Helen “Featherwoman” Naha.  The jar is signed on the bottom with the feather hallmark and “Rainy”.  Rainy has won numerous awards for her pottery at Santa Fe Indian Market and the Heard Market and her work continues to be a creative inspiration in Hopi-Tewa pottery.