Manufacturer: Jackson China
Name of user: Calista Corporation
Date of cup: 1984
Notes: From the Wikipedia: "Calista Corporation … is one of thirteen Alaska Native Regional Corporations created under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA) in settlement of aboriginal land claims. Calista was incorporated in Alaska on June 12, 1972. Although the Calista region is in western Alaska, Calista Corporation is headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska. Calista is a for-profit corporation with over 38,100 Alaska Native shareholders primarily of Yup'ik descent.
"The name Calista (worker) is a portmanteau of the Central Alaskan Yup'ik words cali-, meaning 'to work,' and -ista, meaning someone or something which does. The Yup'ik language does not have a word for 'corporation.'
"As part of ANCSA, Calista received patent for 4,997,263 acres (20,223.21 km2) from the federal government as well as approximately $80 million, making it the second largest corporation established under ANCSA. The Calista region covers Alaska's Bethel and Kusilvak census areas and includes 56 villages. …
"Key Calista Corporation business industries include aerospace and defense, construction, cybersecurity and IT services, engineering, environmental services, heavy equipment sales and rental, facility support services, marine services, metrology services, moving and warehousing, oilfield services, real estate, rock and aggregate products."
The corporation logo is a crescent moon with four-point star and contained within the crescent, an indigenous person – Inuit – in parka aiming a harpoon. The china design is a variation on this with groupings around the border of three of the moon/hunter logos and one larger hunter logo, all in deep navy blue. The rim has a coin gold line, suggesting that the service was intended for an executive dining room.
Sources:
Wikipedia
Calista Corporation website
Calista Corporation headquarters building
Contributor:
Steve Koska: ID and china photos