Ceramic, shallow pedestal base, four spouts around shoulder, painted brown linear design on natural ground; anthropomorphic head forms neck and handle with black glass bead necklace and black and white glass earrings. Clay, molded.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Southwestern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Southwest
Culture or time period:
Quechan
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1900-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Jars
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
References: Tanner, Clara Lee. Southwest Indian Craft Arts, University of Arizona Press, 1968, pp. 109-110. Sample taken by Michael Harner.
Loans:
S1990-1991 #12: University of California Office of the President (December 17, 1990–June 16, 1994)