Ceramic, rectangular shape with defined shoulder, flat base, bird and scroll design in dark brown, very worn over-all, rim chipped, "Keam Collection" printed on base. Molded and painted.
Donor:
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Harvard University)
Collection place:
Walpi, First Mesa, Hopi Reservation
Verbatim coll. place:
Arizona; Hopi Reservation; Walpi
Culture or time period:
Hopi
Collector:
Alexander Stephen, Jesse Walter Fewkes, Keam Collection, and Thomas Keam
Collection date:
1892
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels)
Accession date:
1910
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 9.3 centimeters, width 15.7 centimeters, and length 7.5 centimeters
Comment:
References: Wade, Edwin L. and Lea S. McChesney. "Historic Hopi Ceramics: The Thomas V. Keam Collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology", Peabody Museum Press, Cambridge, 1981, p. 142.
Loans:
S1975-1976 #39: Department of Nutritional Sciences (UC Berkeley) (December 2, 1975–December 18, 1975)