Jar

Museum number:
2-47484
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020047484
Accession number:
Acc.2566
Description:
Flat bottom with straight sides, low shoulder; filleted neckband with "doorway"; pitched on all surfaces; minor chip on rim. Pinon-pitched ceramic; coiled and scraped.
Donor:
Barbara E. Busch
Collection place:
Southwestern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Southwest
Culture or time period:
Navajo
Collector:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Jars
Accession date:
1969
Context of use:
Cooking pot for meat, milk, corn and mush.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
diameter 16 centimeters and height 21 centimeters
Comment:
Native name: "?asa?
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 2-47484, described as Flat bottom with straight sides, low shoulder; filleted neckband with "doorway"; pitched on all surfaces; minor chip on rim. Pinon-pitched ceramic; coiled and scraped.

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