Hopi Hand-coiled Wedding Vase pot by Marianne Navasie, grand daughter of the Frogwoman Joy Navasie. Marianne Navasie is the great grand daughter of Paqua Naha a famous and innovative pottery artist. Marianne was born in 1951 and has been making pottery since she was 18 years old. This particular wedding vase pot has gone through a process of gathering and prepring the clay, then coiling the pot, smoothing, drying, sanding, going through it's first polishing. The painting is then started usually with natural pigments, the pot then goes through a second polishing then the final process of firing. Marianne most often created works in the black and red on white slip style pottery. This is a one of a kind item. 17" in long and 10" in wide.