This is a creative jar by Ida Sahmie.  It is coil-built and fully polished.  It is then painted with various clay slips and bee-weed (black).  The jar has a polished neck and four rug designs extending downward.  Each rug is tightly painted with geometric cloud designs.  Separating them are corn plants and each is a different color representing the four directions.  The jar remainder is stippled with dots. The bowl was traditionally fired and it is signed, “Ida Sahmie”.  She is a daughter-in-law of Priscilla Nampeyo and Ida continues to make beautifully formed pottery with wonderfully complex designs.  She has won numerous awards for her pottery at events such as Santa Fe Indian Market.  She is the only Navajo potter creating this unique style of ethnographic pottery.