Iris Nampeyo comes from a family of talented potters including her siblings: Tonita Nampeyo, Tom Polacca, Elva Nampeyo and Leah Garcia Nampeyo. Iris is a granddaughter of Nampeyo of Hano and a daughter of Fannie Nampeyo.  She is married to Wallace Youvella and their son Nolan is also a talented potter.  Iris is best known for her buff colored pottery with the single ear of corn as the design.  This tall seedpot of hers from the late 1970’s.  It is fully polished and there is a single ear of corn in appliqué on one side.  The corn husk area is more simple than in her later work and the corn itself has a larger and more dramatic appearance on the jar.  It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration or repair.  It is signed on the bottom in the clay, “Iris Youvella Nampeyo”.