Bowl
- Museum number:
- 2-58475
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020058475
- Accession number:
- Acc.3145
- Description:
- Ceramic, black on red, shallow bowl shape with flat bottom; decorated with thin black lines on red slip, running scroll on exterior, variant of scroll on interior. Label on bowl: "Papagoes, Casa Grande, 1893." Black on red slip (black is mesquite gum according to ref.).
- Donor:
- Lloyd W. Swift
- Collection place:
- Casa Grande, Casa Grande Ruins, Pinal County
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Arizona; Pinal; Casa Grande
- Culture or time period:
- Tohono O'odham
- Collector:
- Josephine Hall Bishop
- Collection date:
- 1893
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Bowls (vessels)
- Accession date:
- June 16, 1975
- Context of use:
- Novelty made for sale.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- diameter 13.6 centimeters
- Comment:
- Conservation: Arrived at museum with rim broken, mended with PVA emulsion (water based white glue). References: Fontana, Bernard L., et al. Papago Indian Pottery, Seattle, 1962. "Identified as Papago Black on Red, see ref. pp. 106-109. This type started in 1894, this specimen was made 1 year earlier.
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