Jar

Museum number:

2-58463

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Accession number:

Acc.3145

Description:

Effigy jar. Ceramic, polychrome decoration. Tall necked jar with vertical loop handle, originally had 3 birds attached to sides. one now missing, painted with red and black geometric and plant designs on cream slip on exterior only. Hand modelled.

Donor:

Lloyd W. Swift

Collection place:

Kewa Pueblo, Sandoval County, New Mexico

Verbatim coll. place:

New Mexico; Santo Domingo

Culture or time period:

Kewa Pueblo

Collector:

Josephine Hall Bishop

Collection date:

1917

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Jars, Kiua Polychrome (1780–1920 AD), and Pottery

Accession date:

June 16, 1975

Context of use:

Novelty made for sale.

Department:

Native US and Canada (except California)

Dimensions:

height 11.4 centimeters

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