Canteen or Bottle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Jul 1883
label: Collection Date
content: 1882 to 1883
name: label: Collector
content: Victor Mindeleff
label: Collector
content: Cosmos Mindeleff
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: Canteen or bottle of tapering form with two ring handles. Painted in red and brown on cream slip with a large Kachina face and scalloped decoration on each side. Part of an 1884 exchange between NMNH and the Hartford Seminary. In 1978 the Hartford Seminary decided to close its museum and liquidate its collections. This canteen was put up for auction by Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc. on Oct. 26, 1978. William Sturtevant, curator of North American ethnology at the time, purchased this item (SPB # 118) and others offered by the Hartford Seminary which had also originally belonged to the Smithsonian. Dr. Sturtevant was eventually reimbursed by the Smithsonian for some of the costs he incurred in reacquiring the exchanged items. Note: Dr. Sturtevant determined this item matched the drawing in the ledger book for catalog number 85961, however the object had no number on it when he acquired it in 1978.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hopi
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 83A00030
label: USNM Number
content: E85961-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Canteen
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 16 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 22.5 cm