Sylvia Naha created pieces with the white clay polished surface painted with bee-weed (black) and native clay slips.  Throughout the 1980s, Sylvia was considered among the most innovative of the Hopi potters.  Her pieces were classic in form and amazingly intricate in design.  This bowl is thin-walled and has a design often used by her mother, Helen Naha.  It takes the classic “migration pattern” and adds the bird heads.  There are six on top and six on the bottom.  Of course, for Sylvia, it’s the thin lines that identify it as her work.  There are precise and thinly painted with bee-weed. It is exceptionally painted and designed for the size.  The bottom of the jar is signed with a feather and an “S”.  The piece is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair.