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 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 is a small piece of her pottery from the 1970s.  The canteen is coil built and has a swirling bird as the design.  The bird swirls around the top of the canteen.  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 burgundy-colored red clay. The canteen is signed on the bottom with her frog hallmark.  It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair.