Jar miniature
- Museum number:
- 2-58497
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020058497
- Accession number:
- Acc.3145
- Description:
- Ceramic, squat body and short neck. Papago black on red. 2 encircling bands of black filled triangles. Fire cloud covering base and side. Coiled and hand modelled. Red slip with black mesquite gum paint decoration.
- Donor:
- Lloyd W. Swift
- Collection place:
- Southwestern United States
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Southwest
- Culture or time period:
- Tohono O'odham
- Collector:
- Josephine Hall Bishop
- Collection date:
- 1917
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Jars and Miniature (size attribute)
- Accession date:
- June 16, 1975
- Context of use:
- Novelty item, made for sale.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- height 6.2 centimeters and diameter 8 centimeters
- Comment:
- References: Fontana, et al. Papago Indian Pottery, 1962. pp. 106-109.
- Legacy documentation: