Pot

Museum number:
2-34330
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2206
Description:
Boiling pot (hftotakut), mainly for beans but also for saguaro seed mush, saguaro fruit syrup, etc. rim diameter 20 cm
Donor:
Lawrence E. Dawson and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Quijotoa, Tohono O'odham Nation Reservation, Pima County
Verbatim coll. place:
Arizona; Papago Reservation; Quijotoa
Culture or time period:
Tohono O'odham
Collector:
Lawrence E. Dawson
Collection date:
December 1966
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Pots (containers)
Accession date:
1967
Context of use:
Boiling pot, mainly for beans but also for saguaro seed mush, saguaro fruit syrup, etc.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
diameter 20 centimeters
Comment:
Native name: "hitotakut" Remarks: cf. Fontana et al, Papago Indian Pottery, Seattle, 1962.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pot, accession number 2-34330, described as Boiling pot (hftotakut), mainly for beans but also for saguaro seed mush, saguaro fruit syrup, etc. rim diameter 20 cmDocumentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pot, accession number 2-34330, described as Boiling pot (hftotakut), mainly for beans but also for saguaro seed mush, saguaro fruit syrup, etc. rim diameter 20 cm

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