This is a highly detailed miniature canteen by Dextra Quotskuyva.  She is certainly one of the great innovators among Hopi-Tewa potters.  Her work began with more classic imagery and then has evolved over the years to more unique and stylized designs. This piece is from around 1997 and it is one of her few miniatures.  The canteen has a bird painted on the front and note the precision of the painting!  The rim is polished red and the piece has been traditionally fired.  The canteen is signed, “Dextra” plus an ear of corn etched in the clay near the base.  It has a museum mount to hold it upright.  Dextra has been the subject of a retrospective of her pottery at the Museum of Indian Art and Culture called, “Painted Perfection“.