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Jar

Object Number:57-26-50
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Hopi
Provenience: Arizona
Culture Area: Southwest Culture Area
Date Made: 1954
Early Date: 1954
Late Date: 1954
Section:American
Materials:Clay
Pigment
Height: 9 cm
Width: 12 cm
Credit Line:Gift of the George Washington Memorial Museum, 1957
Other Number:L-269-52 - Old Museum Number
55 - Other Number

Description

Polychrome jar, short neck, pronounced shoulder, rounded body and base. Red bottom, interior undecorated, rim painted, paint deteriorating. Exterior decorated in two separate sections, the first is comprised of repeating panels containing a ceremonial blanket surrounded by diagonal lines. The second section is comprised of panels containing crosses bisected by diagonal lines at the corners.

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