Pot

Museum number:
2-71418
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020071418
Accession number:
Acc.4568
Description:
Ceramic, half pot on stained wood "bookend" and pierced for hanging. Red-brown globular pot with elongated, wide neck. Many dark fire clouds. Applique decoration of ear of corn with 2 pulled-back leaves. Rim decoration of raised, inverted arcs. Half pot vertical cut is smooth (power saw?). Unreadable label on foot of pot. Pinon pitch.
Donor:
Frances J. Fischer, Margot Blum Schevill, and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Cow Springs, Coconino County, Arizona
Verbatim coll. place:
Arizona; Coconino; Cow Springs
Culture or time period:
Navajo
Maker or artist:
Lorena Bartlett [Navajo]
Collector:
Frances J. Fischer, Jan Musial, and Margot Blum Schevill
Collection date:
July 1992
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pots (containers)
Context of use:
Made for tourist trade.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 15.5 centimeters and height 21.5 centimeters
Comment:
Purchased...at cost of $7.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pot, accession number 2-71418, described as Ceramic, half pot on stained wood "bookend" and pierced for hanging. Red-brown globular pot with elongated, wide neck. Many dark fire clouds. Applique decoration of ear of corn with 2 pulled-back leaves. Rim decoration of raised, inverted arcs. Half pot vertical cut is smooth (power saw?). Unreadable label on foot of pot. Pinon pitch.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pot, accession number 2-71418, described as Ceramic, half pot on stained wood "bookend" and pierced for hanging. Red-brown globular pot with elongated, wide neck. Many dark fire clouds. Applique decoration of ear of corn with 2 pulled-back leaves. Rim decoration of raised, inverted arcs. Half pot vertical cut is smooth (power saw?). Unreadable label on foot of pot. Pinon pitch.

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