- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Red ware, shallow circular vessel with an almost flat base and high rounded sides. [ASh [OPS move] 04/04/2016]
- Long description
- Red ware, shallow circular vessel with an almost flat base and high rounded sides. Burnished exterior with black, geometric lines painted on the side. [ASh [OPS move] 04/04/2016]
- Geographical reference
- Western USA New Mexico Sandoval County Cochiti Pueblo
- Person
- Field collector Octavius Bates
- Field collector Octavius John Seymour Cavendish Bates
- PRM source Octavius Bates
- PRM source Octavius John Seymour Cavendish Bates
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1889
- Date collected
- By 1889
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 08/1889
- Materials and processes
- Material Pottery, Material Pigment, Process Handbuilt, Process Burnished, Process Painted
- Dimensions
- Width: max 110 mm, Height: max 50 mm, Depth: max 78 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1889.39.8
- Research and responses
In March 2007 Dr Bruce Bernstein from the Smithsonian Institution examined 1889.39.1 through to 1889.39.10 and identified all eleven pots as items made specifically for sale to travellers and tourists. This is because of their miniaturised form, the simplified painted designs and their shapes, including animals and mini teacups that are 'pleasing' or recognisable to tourists. Objects like this would also sell in the nineteenth century because the popularity of the idea of the exotic that was associated with indigenous peoples. They would have been new or unused when purchased, probably costing 5 or 10 cents each. Bernstein identified this pot as Mohave or Maricopa. [ZM 8/3/2007]
1889.39.8
Red ware, shallow circular vessel with an almost flat base and high rounded sides. [ASh [OPS move] 04/04/2016]
1889.39.8
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