Vessel miniature
- Museum number:
- 2-58495
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020058495
- Accession number:
- Acc.3145
- Description:
- Ceramic, double spouted, canteen shape, annular base. Decorated black on red with 2 spirals on body and encircling lines at bottom of spouts and base, polished. Areas of fire clouds. Coiled with anvil and paddle, hand modelled. Red slip with decoration of black mesquite gum paint.
- Donor:
- Lloyd W. Swift
- Collection place:
- Southwestern United States
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Southwest
- Culture or time period:
- Tohono O'odham
- Collector:
- Josephine Hall Bishop
- Collection date:
- 1917
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Miniature (size attribute) and Vessels (containers)
- Accession date:
- June 16, 1975
- Context of use:
- Novelty item, made for sale.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- height 9.7 centimeters
- Comment:
- References: Fontana, et al. Papago Indian Pottery, 1962. pp. 106-109.