Pot

Museum number:
1-10820
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010010820
Alternate number:
817 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.264, Acc.265, and Acc.266
Description:
Shallow slightly flaring blackened pot.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Dunlap, Fresno County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Fresno; Dunlap
Culture or time period:
Yokuts
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
February 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pots (containers)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
Formerly pottery was much used, particularly among the people living in the foothill and higher mountain region, for general cooking purposes. Now, however..is found at present almost exclusively used for the brewing of medicines. This pot when purchased
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Photo: 15-4819. Remarks: (General cooking purposes) "has been chiefly superseded by utensils of white manufacture.." See 1-10823, 10874, 10898, 10940, 10943, 10946.
Loans:
S1968-1969 #69: Department of Anthropology (SF State University) (January 20, 1969–January 27, 1969) and S1982-1983 #39: University of California, Davis (April 11, 1983–July 21, 1986)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pot, accession number 1-10820, described as Shallow slightly flaring blackened pot.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pot, accession number 1-10820, described as Shallow slightly flaring blackened pot.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pot, accession number 1-10820, described as Shallow slightly flaring blackened pot.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pot, accession number 1-10820, described as Shallow slightly flaring blackened pot.

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