Earthenware Vessel
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD [2812-20]: "GLAZED & ORNAMENTED... ORIG.# 1752". From card [2818]: "(This information given by K.P. Emory, Bishop Museum, 6/24/41.)"
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue describes #s 1739 - 1758 as "Water jars, and other articles of earthenware of Fiji manufacture. Those with spouts are used in drinking - but are never allowed to touch the lips."
label: Notes
content: Round low-fire ceramic vessel tapers to a rounded base and has slightly sloped shoulder progressing to a wide opening. At the juncture of the body and the shoulder is a small round spout. Body is smooth. At shoulder juncture is a rim incised with shallow slash marks. Above this are raised pointed dots, above this is another incised rim, above this is an area of diagonal and vertical incised lines, above this is another set of raised rims with incised lines with raised pointed dots between them. The ceramic body is light brown with a yellow applied resin on the entire exterior surface. The exterior of the body is mottled from firing.
label: Notes
content: Tag inside bowl indicated it was a "vessel for holding liquids".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fiji, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fijian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2818-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pot
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 30 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 28 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 15 cm