Jar
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
label: Collection Date
content: 1923 or before
name: label: Collector
content: Miss Frances T. Densmore
label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Red ware. Made by "Katie," a sole surviving Arikara capable of making pottery and therefore makes a mystery of her technique; collected by Frances Densmore. This is a flat-bottomed wide-mouthed bowl, of heavy thick pottery, with a polished red slip inside and out. The original tag on this specimen, in Miss Densmore's writing, reads as follows: "Jar made by 'Kate' an Arikara woman living on the Fort Berthold reservation in N.D.. She is said to be the only woman of the tribe, in this locality, who can make pottery. She makes it entirely 'in the old way.' She surrounds the process with considerable mystery. She makes very few pieces - only making one once in a while, 'when she feels just like it.' She allows no one to see a jar until it is finished. Collected by Frances Densmore. Submitted Feb. 7, 1923." 1/6/1953 How this specimen got into the hands of Evans, rather than the museum originally is not at all clear. None of the Densmore accessions, some with Mandan specimens, give any clue to it ever having been in the museum and therefore having been available for some of Dr. Walter Hough's 'exchanges' with Evans. Even though modern, it is rare and since Densmore was doing research for the museum (Smithsonian) it would appear that it could only have come here directly from her ???? Unless she sold it to Evans? - R. Elder, Jr."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Arikara (Sahnish)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E361907-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pot