Jar

Museum number:
2-9492
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
807 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.387
Description:
Ceramic, flat base, design combining curvilinear, triangular and bird elements in dark brown and red on cream ground, brown framing lines and rim, red base rim chipped, "Keam Collection" printed in ink on base.
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 19 centimeters and height 19.4 centimeters
Comment:
References: Wade, Edwin L. and Lea S. McChesney. "Historic Hopi Ceramics: The Thomas V. Keam Collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaelogy and Ethnology", Peabody Museum Press, Cambridge, 1981, pp. 352.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 2-9492, described as Ceramic, flat base, design combining curvilinear, triangular and bird elements in dark brown and red on cream ground, brown framing lines and rim, red base rim chipped, "Keam Collection" printed in ink on base.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 2-9492, described as Ceramic, flat base, design combining curvilinear, triangular and bird elements in dark brown and red on cream ground, brown framing lines and rim, red base rim chipped, "Keam Collection" printed in ink on base.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 2-9492, described as Ceramic, flat base, design combining curvilinear, triangular and bird elements in dark brown and red on cream ground, brown framing lines and rim, red base rim chipped, "Keam Collection" printed in ink on base.

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