For your consideration is this beautifully crafted Navajo bowl done by renowned Navajo potter, Samuel Manymules, made 20th century. Samuel Manymules was born in 1963 as a Bitterwater Clan member for the Red House Clan. With significant unemployment in the Navajo Nation, Samuel learned a variety of trades before becoming a full-time jeweler. He experimented in ceramics for more than a decade before calling himself a serious potter. He taught himself how to produce pottery by studying the work of Joseph Lonewolf and Christine McHorse in various pottery books. Samuel's posts are fashioned in the traditional style, but with a modern twist. He creates a variety of shapes, including huge bean pots, melon pots, and dough bowls, which are polished smooth and covered with piñon pitch and reddish-brown iron oxide. This bowl shows a beige / brown and black color scheme and features two small handles near the top on opposite sides of each other. The piece is signed on the bottom reading, "SM". It shows good condition overall with no wear or damage present. It measures 6 1/4" L x 6 1/4" W x 5 1/2" H and weighs 1 pound and 4 ounces.