Jennie Laate was an accomplished potter at her home of Acoma Pueblo. She married a Zuni Pueblo man and moved to his pueblo. Jennie was the art teacher at Zuni High School where she taught the students how to make pottery. She taught them all the traditional techniques of gathering, cleaning and working the clay, and gathering and processing the slip for the paints. The school had an electric kiln so she let the students use it rather than fire their pottery outdoors. She felt that learning to process the clay and form the pottery was sufficient for class study.

Jennie used the natural pinkish clay at Zuni for this jar. She applied a white slip and painted designs in black paint. The four frogs applied to the jar are slipped in red clay and decorated in black. Also included are butterflies and Avanyu water serpents. The jar is in excellent condition and is signed J. Laate Zuni, NM.

Provenance: From the estate of Transcendental artist Florence Pierce of Albuquerque who passed away in 2007 at the age of 89.