Ceramic, flattend base, stylized feather design on interior in black and red buff ground, brown rim and framing lines. Molded, painted, varnished.
Donor:
Guy J. Giffen and Helen Smith Giffen
Collection place:
Southwestern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Southwest
Culture or time period:
Hopi
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1906
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels)
Function:
1.5 Household and 5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Production date:
Before 1906
Accession date:
1940
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
diameter 12.2 centimeters and height 4.5 centimeters
Comment:
References: Fewkes, Jesse Walter. "Designs on Prehistoric Hopi Pottery", 33rd Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, D.C., 1919, pp. 230-231.