Sally Tafoya (b 1958) began making pottery in the 1980s.  She is a granddaughter of Rosita Velarde and Flora Naranjo, a daughter of Victoria Gutierrez, and a sister of Eugene Gutierrez, Effie Garcia, Julie Gutierrez, and Ethel Yazza.  This bowl is coil-built, carved, and stone polished.  The bowl has a water serpent or avanyu encircling the top of the piece.  It is very deeply carved, and note the outline of the design in the black-on-black around the edges.  The bowl is signed on the bottom in the clay, “Sally Tafoya.”  It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration, or repair.