Pottery tools

Museum number:
3-15842a-e
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210315842a@2de
Accession number:
Acc.1279
Description:
Five tools for pottery making; two corncobs, one rib of gourd, one pointed tool of reed or bamboo, one wood tool, blunt and cylindrical. All used pottery mold for "olla." 9" diameter 8.5" high, unslipped, incised pattern of zig-zag and circles.
Donor:
George M. Foster
Collection place:
Acatlán, Puebla, Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
Mexico; Puebla, Acatlán
Collector:
George M. Foster
Collection date:
May 18, 1959
Object type:
ethnography
Accession date:
1959
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pottery tools, accession number 3-15842a-e, described as Five tools for pottery making; two corncobs, one rib of gourd, one pointed tool of reed or bamboo, one wood tool, blunt and cylindrical. All used pottery mold for "olla." 9" diameter 8.5" high, unslipped, incised pattern of zig-zag and circles.

Tools