This is a very highly detailed bowl by Dextra Quotskuyva.   It was made in the early 1980’s when Dextra was experimenting with the white clay slips. This bowl is slipped on the top and bottom with the white clay.  The top has one of her few very realistic presentations of an bird.  Here the eagle is painted on the polished white clay with bee-weed (a plant).  The eagle has more realistic elements and above the eagle are very highly detailed fine-line clouds and rain patterns.  It is these delicate lines for which Dextra was quickly known in her painting.  Do you see how the the eagle is not painted symmetrically from the head to the tail feathers?  This is a reflection by Dextra on the work of Nampeyo of Hano, who typically would have a stylized asymmetry to her designs!  The red band around the side of the bowl is stippled to give it texture an the feel of “the earth”. The bowl was traditionally fired so that there are blushes and color variations around the surface.  It is signed on the bottom with bee-weed, “Detra” with an ear of corn representing the Corn Clan.  The bowl is in very good condition with no chips, cracks, restoration or repair.  Dextra has been the subject of a retrospective of her pottery at the Museum of Indian Art and Culture called, “Painted Perfection“.