This is an unusual shape by Samuel Manymules.  It is coil built and slipped with a red clay and then traditionally fired.  The jar has triangular ribs extending down from the neck and reverse triangular ribs extending up from the base.  The style of his coil work is always distinctive with the sharp edge to the neck and at the base before he does the melon rib variations.  The ribs on Samuel’s pottery are pushed out from the inside to give them the traditional melon rib style.  The fire clouds encircle the piece had create various colors from red to dark black.  After the firing the jar is the covered with pine pitch in the traditional way expected of Navajo pottery.  It is extraordinary vessels like this which keep Samuel among the top Navajo potters working today.