Jar

Museum number:
2-34333
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Accession number:
Acc.2206
Description:
Small jar; highly burnished with painted designs; (sftotakut); sharply everted rim serves for tying on a potsherd lid; rim diameter 13.4 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:
Jars
Accession date:
1967
Context of use:
For foodstuff storage, mainly saguaro fruit syrup or fermented saguaro fruit wine; occasionally also for dry seed such as corn or saguaro.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
diameter 13.4 centimeters
Comment:
Native name: "sitotakut" Remarks: cf. Fontana et al, Papago Indian Pottery, Seattle, 1962.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 2-34333, described as Small jar; highly burnished with painted designs; (sftotakut); sharply everted rim serves for tying on a potsherd lid; rim diameter 13.4 cmDocumentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 2-34333, described as Small jar; highly burnished with painted designs; (sftotakut); sharply everted rim serves for tying on a potsherd lid; rim diameter 13.4 cm

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