Canteen

Museum number:

2-71412

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21020071412

Accession number:

Acc.4568

Description:

Ceramic, with lug handles. Flattened ball-shape with short, narrow neck (open) at top. Handles (for hanging straps) on shoulders. Decorated on one face with large applique of Navajo Rainbow figure and incised corn plant. Squared-off bottom incised "Faye B. Tso". Mask tape label "$70".

Donor:

Frances J. Fischer, Margot Blum Schevill, and University Appropriation

Collection place:

Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona

Verbatim coll. place:

Arizona; Maricopa; Phoenix

Culture or time period:

Navajo

Maker or artist:

Faye Tso

Collector:

Frances J. Fischer and Margot Blum Schevill

Collection date:

July 1992

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Masks (costume)

Context of use:

Water canteen. Made for tourist trade.

Department:

Native US and Canada (except California)

Dimensions:

width 19.6 centimeters, height 20.7 centimeters, diameter 4.25 centimeters, and depth 10.85 centimeters

Comment:

Purchased...at cost of $56." References: Hartman, Russell and Musial, Jan. Navajo Pottery: Traditions and Innovations. Flagstaff, Arizona: Northland Publishing, 1989. Pages 71-74 on the work of Faye Tso. P. 72 shows photograph of a pot (not a canteen) with similar applique work.

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