Earthen Cooking Pot "Utiyu"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Apr 1889
label: Collection Date
content: 1887
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: ""Utiyu (Cherokee): Utiyu is the name given to all vessels of this shape, the distinctive peculiarities being a rounded bottom, bulging sides and projecting rim. They are commonly used for cooking purposes, being placed between two logs of the wood fire or set in a bed of coals. The projecting rim is for convenience in lifting. Some specimens, as in this case, have the bottom slightly flattened, to admit of their standing without support. The outside of the vessel is ornamented with various patterns imprest upon the soft clay with wooden stamps before buring. The inside is colored by inverting the vessel over burning corn cobs or oak bark so as to confine the smoke. This stamping & coloring is found in all Cherokee pottery but is not practised by the Catawbas." - James Mooney Notes. Exhibit in foyer 1975, returned 1980."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Eastern Cherokee Reservation, North Carolina, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 021819
label: USNM Number
content: E132977-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pot