- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Canteen of pottery with painted design, two handles and one spout. The base, handles and spout are painted in a deep red.
- Geographical reference
- Western USA Arizona
- Cultural groups
- Hopi
- Person
- Other owner Henry Nottidge Moseley
- Other owner Smithsonian Institution
- Field collector James Stevenson
- PRM source Amabel Nevill Sollas
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1884
- Date collected
- 1879 - 1884
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1896
- Materials and processes
- Material Pottery, Process Painted, Process Moulded, Process Fire-Hardened
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 200 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1896.54.88 Other numbers: Powell no. 168 Other numbers: 41319 (Natural Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution no.)
- Research and responses
This object had previously been in the collections of what is now the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. The old NMNH number, which can be found on the object, is 41319.
The entry is listed, along with an illustration, in the NMNH Ledger Book Volume 9, p.73, under the heading ‘Expedition of Maj. Powell to the Pueblos’:
'[Current No.] 41319 [Original No.] 1819 [Name] Earthenware Canteen che, cah, quo, roo [Locality] Moqui [Collected by] Col. J.S. Stevenson [When Entered] 1880 May.’
A very similar canteen of the same provenance remains in the NMNH collections as no. 41320. The accession date for that canteen is given on their collections online as 6 January 1881. [JMC 06/06/2024]
1896.54.88
Canteen of pottery with painted design, two handles and one spout. The base, handles and spout are painted in a deep red.
On display
1896.54.88
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