Oh my, duh! I hadn’t even noticed that in you post, thanks. I think I was still convinced it was something else. But then I can be clueless sometimes. I remember I got a printed sheet of info about her when I bought it, I just don’t know where it is. And then I really hadn’t thought about that piece of pottery for a while - other than I like it sitting on my shelf 
In your picture, the serpent head also reminds me a little bit of a ram. It is beautiful.
Ok…I checked and i have an avanyu too. It starts here and encircles the entire lower portion of the pitcher. 
Hi! I’m new to the forum as of this week. @Ziacat kindly pointed me to this thread.
Back in the early nineties I bought 4 or 5 Zuni fetishes from Tony Barnett of Southwest Indian Art in California. By post, if you can imagine it, based on photographs that he mailed out. The wild days before the internet!
When I moved to Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada), I’ve collected some silver jewellery by First Nations artists of this area. There are many gifted silversmiths here. The majority of my pieces are by either Norman Seaweed or Travis Henry, with one each also by Don Lancaster, John Lancaster, Alfred Seaweed and Corrine Hunt. These artists are all Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw except for Travis Henry, who is Coast Salish (Cowichan). I don’t have any jewellery representing the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation, which is the third tribal group on the island, but I do have a couple of small wooden masks by Elliot Jones, who is a Nuu-chah-nulth carver.
Oh, and somewhere I have the elaborate beadwork from a very old pair of leather moccasins given to me long ago by a friend in Alberta. But I don’t know which nation the artisan who made them was from, sadly.
