Ceramic, flat base, wide shoulder with sides incurving at rim and base, geometric design around shoulder in black and red on yellow/orange ground, curvilinear design in black around rim, fire smudged, rim chipped and cracked, worn on base. Molded and painted.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Southwestern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Southwest
Culture or time period:
Hopi
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1900-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Jars
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 21.8 centimeters and diameter 40.5 centimeters
Comment:
Original catalog card with detailed description in accession envelope.
Loans:
S1962-1963 #35: Oakland Public Museum (January 30, 1963–March 29, 1963), S1974-1975 #55: University of California, Santa Cruz (February 4, 1975–March 19, 1975), S1979-1980 #59: University of California, Berkeley (April 11, 1980–April 25, 1980), S1982-1983 #43: SFO Museum (May 24, 1983–December 7, 1983), and S1992-1993 #26: SFO Museum (May 26, 1993–September 10, 1993)