Clarissa Tafoya learned to make pottery from her mother Rose Tafoya and her grandmother, Lucaria Tafoya.  She is married to Timothy Roller, a son of Toni Roller.  This jar is carved with a water serpent encircling the shoulder of the piece.  Below the avanyu there are water designs. The jar is deeply carved and fired a deep black.  It is signed on the bottom in the clay.