Ceramic, concave base, shallow neck, geometric design in black and red on buff ground, black framing lines, red rim, fire smudged, rim broken in two areas with pieces missing, "Keam Collection 1499" printed on base. Molded and painted.
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
Materials:
Clay
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Jars
Accession date:
1910
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 15 centimeters
Comment:
References: Wade, Edwin L. and Lea S. McChesney. "Historic Hopi Ceramics: The Thomas V. Keam Collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology", Peabody Museum Press, Cambridge, 1981, p. 56.
Loans:
S1992-1993 #26: SFO Museum (May 26, 1993–September 10, 1993)