(a) Pottery-making support ("kabal"); carved wood with rectangular upper surface, 19 x 15.5 cm, and disc base, 9.5 cm high; (b) scraper ("box") made of curved oval section of tree-gourd (Crescentia cujete L.), 13 x 6 cm.
Donor:
Crocker-Reid Fund and Mrs. Chelton Hill
Collection place:
Tikal, Petén, Guatemala
Culture or time period:
Maya
Collector:
Zelia Nuttall
Collection date:
May 1902
Taxon:
Crescentia cujete
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Accession date:
1953 and September 12, 1902
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Comment:
The stand (a) is rotated with the feet; scraper for smoothing and compacting vessel walls, trimming rims, etc.; cf. R. H. Thompson (1958) "Modern Yucatecan Maya Pottery Making," American Antiquity, vol 23, no. 4, part 2, pp. 76–82 & figure 18f.