Joy Navasie was known for her white slipped pottery and classic use of design elements. She learned to make pottery from her mother, Paqua, who also used the white clay and signed with a frog as a hallmark.  The white kaolin clay is a slip that is applied to the surface of the bowl and then black (bee-weed) and red clay slips are used for painting.  This jar is a classic of her pottery from the early 1970s.  The design is painted in four panels and they are separated by fine lines.  Each panel has a different bird or parrot as the image.  The red areas are the wings of the birds in each of the sections. Note the color of the red which is typical of her work at this period of time.  Later she would change slips and use the darker colored red clay. The jar is signed on the bottom with her frog hallmark.  It is in very good condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair.