Analla, Calvin – Canteen with Flower and Double Bird Designs

Calvin Analla learned to make pottery from his sister, Yvonne Lucas, and her husband, Steve Lucas.  This unique canteen is made by mixing two different types of clay together.  That creates the mottled appearance of the clay.  The canteen is thin-walled and painted with bee-weed (black).  One side has a flower design with thin lines representing the rain.  The opposite side has double birds along with thin lines for the rain and the complex bird tails.  The precision of the painting is simply Amazing!  It has a rounded bottom so it is sitting on a small stand.  It is signed on the bottom, “Calvin Analla”.