This water jar by Samuel Manymules  has a stunning coloration!  It is coil built and slipped with a red clay and then traditionally fired.  The neck of the jar is plain and extends down to a sharp shoulder.  The rim is just slightly tuned out.  At the shoulder the ribs are pushed out in the clay and spiral around to the base.  They are each sharp on the edge.  The traditional firing has created strong colorations on the jar with areas from black to deep red.  They way they flow from the neck to the ribs is especially striking.   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.  It is signed on the bottom.