Bowl; ceramic, whiteware, flat base, exterior design of a checkerboard band with black and red dots, on interior an all over geometric design suggesting stylized feathers in black and red. Molded, painted.
Donor:
George H. Pepper and Zelia Nuttall
Collection place:
Hano, First Mesa, Hopi Reservation
Verbatim coll. place:
Arizona; Hopi Reservation; Hano
Culture or time period:
Hopi-Tewa
Collector:
George H. Pepper
Collection date:
1903
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels) and Unclassified pottery
Accession date:
1905
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 8.3 centimeters and diameter 25.6 centimeters
Comment:
Original catalog card in accession envelope. References: Fewkes, Jesse Walter. "Designs on Prehistoric Hopi Pottery", 33rd Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, D.C., 1919, plate 77, pp. 241, 258, 261.
Loans:
S1961-1962 #6: American Association of University Women, Berkeley Branch (July 28, 1961–July 31, 1961) and S1974-1975 #55: University of California, Santa Cruz (February 4, 1975–March 19, 1975)