This a very traditional style water jar shape by Samuel Manymules.  It is coil built and slipped with a red clay and then traditionally fired.  The jar has a long neck and a slightly turned out rim.  On the shoulder there is a “double rainbow” band, which is pushed out in the clay. The low shoulder of the jar is a series of sixteen sharp, angular melon ribs.  Each rib is pushed out in the clay, which adds to the difficultly of its creation.  The color is red and brown with blushes of black around the surface. The color is created by the traditional outdoor firing.  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.