This is a long neck water jar by Mary Ester Archuleta.  The jar is fully polished red at the neck and the base.  Around the shoulder, it is carved with 24 melon ribs, which are polished tan.  Typical of her pottery, the jar is very highly polished!  It won “Best of Pottery” at the 1976 Eight Northern Pueblos Indian Market.  It is signed on the bottom in the clay, “Mary E. Archuleta.  It is in excellent condition with no chips, cracks, restoration or repair.  Mary is the second youngest daughter of Margaret Tafoya.  She married into San Juan Pueblo in the late 1960’s and created most of her pieces in the San Juan inspired style.  It was her marriage at San Juan and reviving pottery there, which reminded Margaret about how she learned to polish the tan slip when her brother had married and moved there years earlier.