Earthenware Pot
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Feb 1869
label: Collection Date
content: 1867 to 1868
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. U S Army Charles C. Gray
label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "semi-conical-based globular pottery jar, with a slight bulge just below the center, wide mouth and slightly flaring rim, the latter a full inch wide, marked with diagonal cord impressions. Two simple handles extending down from the rim, cord marked and with four large punctate marks at their tops. On either side of the pot between the handles is a small lug extending just below the rim and marked with 3 large punctate marks. Neck appears to have been marked with cords but later smoothed to almost obliterate the cord marks. The body is marked with parralel vertical wide grooves, which would appear to have been made with a wide-toothed comb, but may have been made with a thong-wrapped paddle because there are some points at which it appears as though there might be overlappings of the small paddle usually used for this purpose among other peoples. Since this was collected at Fort Stevenson, it must have been done by Gray in 1867 (because Matthews was not stationed there). Refer to cat. No. 6348 for an almost identical specimen from these donors. One lug is broken off. 1/7/53 – RAE Jr. June 1978- for clay impression of fabric see W.H. Holmes, 1881-82, BAE vol. 3, "Prehistoric textile fabrics of the U.S. derived from impressions on pottery. For further comments see Hurley, Wm., 1978, Prehistoric Cordage. - J. Gardner. Negative No. 42327 & BAE Neg. 3446-H” Culture changed from Mandan to Hidatsa per c. Greene 8-20-1999. See processing lab accession file and AMM records for additional information.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort Stevenson, Mclean County, Dakota Territory / North Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hidatsa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416140
label: USNM Number
content: E8407-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pot
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 16.5 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 19.1 cm