Ceramic, flat base, circular linear design on interior in dark brown on white ground, brown framing lines and rim, "Keam Collection" printed in ink on base, fire smudged. repaired. 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
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels)
Accession date:
1910
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
diameter 19 centimeters and height 8.8 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. 213.