Large water container bound with mesquite bark at neck. Design of white diamonds with red dots on outside. Necked globular. Badly damaged and mended, especially at base. Flaring wide mouth. Ceramic.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Needles, San Bernardino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; San Bernardino; Needles
Culture or time period:
Mohave
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
February 1908
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Jars
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1908
Context of use:
Water jar.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
height 26 centimeters and diameter 31.2 centimeters
Comment:
Published: Mohave Pottery by Kroeber and Harner Anthro Record Vol. 16 #1 p. 30A.