Jar

Museum number:
2-9489
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
817 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.387
Description:
Ceramic, concave base, stepped triangle design around shoulder in black and red on buff ground, scroll and triangular design around mid-section in black and red, red base, black rim and framing lines, ribbed and worn in several areas, fire smudged, "Keam Collection" printed on base. Molded and painted.
Donor:
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Harvard University)
Collection place:
Walpi, First Mesa, Hopi Reservation
Verbatim coll. place:
Arizona; Hopi Reservation; Walpi
Culture or time period:
Hopi
Collector:
Alexander Stephen, Jesse Walter Fewkes, Keam Collection, and Thomas Keam
Collection date:
1892
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Jars
Accession date:
1910
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
diameter 27.2 centimeters and height 25.5 centimeters
Comment:
References: Wade, Edwin L. and Lea S. McChesney, "Historic Hopi Ceramics: The Thomas V. Keam Collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology", Peabody Museum Press, Cambridge, 1981, pp. 122-130.
Loans:
S1973-1974 #42: M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (December 3, 1973–February 21, 1974)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 2-9489, described as Ceramic, concave base, stepped triangle design around shoulder in black and red on buff ground, scroll and triangular design around mid-section in black and red, red base, black rim and framing lines, ribbed and worn in several areas, fire smudged, "Keam Collection" printed on base. Molded and painted.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 2-9489, described as Ceramic, concave base, stepped triangle design around shoulder in black and red on buff ground, scroll and triangular design around mid-section in black and red, red base, black rim and framing lines, ribbed and worn in several areas, fire smudged, "Keam Collection" printed on base. Molded and painted.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 2-9489, described as Ceramic, concave base, stepped triangle design around shoulder in black and red on buff ground, scroll and triangular design around mid-section in black and red, red base, black rim and framing lines, ribbed and worn in several areas, fire smudged, "Keam Collection" printed on base. Molded and painted.

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