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: "GLAZED & ORNAMENTED...ORIG. # 1745. "
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: Red earthenware container. Roundish spout emerges from one flattened tip. A neck at top allows for filling container. Upper portion of pot is decorated with groups of incised parallel lines with dots running between them. Bottom of pot is undecorated; it is rounded. Appears to have remnants of yellowed resin on surface.
label: Notes
content: Earthenware water container or drinking vessel.
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
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2820-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pot
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 29 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 26 cm