This is a classic long neck jar by Lorraine Williams.  She married George Williams in 1977.  George is the son of Rose Williams, one of the best-known Navajo potters. Lorraine was adept at making beads and sand paintings, and she was a weaver. “But when I married George I saw pottery with new eyes.” Her new eyes led to Lorraine’s beginning with clay about 1980. Ultimately, Lorraine would make the largest pots produced at Navajo today.  This tall jar is fully designed with a rug pattern on two of the sides and Yei figures on the other two sides.  The various colors are added to the piece before the firing.  The jar is traditionally fired and then after the firing, it is covered in pine pitch, which is typical of all traditional Navajo pottery harkening back to when it was utilitarian.  Lorraine has won numerous awards for her pottery and been featured in books such as “A Legacy of Generations”.  The jar is signed on the bottom in the clay, “LW”.