Pottery Bowl
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Jan 1867
name: label: Donor Name
content: John Varden
notes: label: Notes
content: This sherd/partial bowl was formerly stored with archaeology (A5451) but it matches the other two bowls in the set, E5449 and E5450. Also, there is no record of there being an archaeological item/sherd with 5451 (no catalog card, for example). So it was moved to ethnology as E5451-0. Another bowl, E5451-1, a plain flat-bottomed bowl, is marked "5451 choctaw" but this is clearly newer lettering, and it is probably misnumbered. See notes in record E5451-1.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "5,449 - 5,451. SIMPLE UNDECORATED BOWLS OF REDDISH CLAY ABOUT 1/4" THICK. ORIGINAL CATALOG OF JOHN VARDEN'S WASHINGTON MUSEUM (IN SMITHSONIAN ARCHIVES) INDICATES THAT ON MARCH 22, 1838, VARDEN, WHILE AT MOBILE, ALABAMA, COLLECTED "THREE BOWLS [E5449 - 5451] MADE BY INDIANS OF THE SIX NATIONS IN ALABAMA," FROM BENJAMIN LAURENDEN. THE SIX TOWNS (NATION?) WAS ONE OF THE NAMES FOR THE SOUTHERN GROUP OF CHOCTAW, WHO LIVED IN JASPER AND SMITH COUNTIES, MISSISSIPPI, BEFORE THEIR REMOVAL. VARDEN'S ALABAMA LOCATION PROBABLY IS INACCURATE, UNLESS, PERCHANCE THE SPECIMENS WERE OBTAINED FROM AN INDIVIDUAL THEN RESIDING IN ALABAMA."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 3 Jul 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Jasper County (not certain) / Smith County (not certain), Mississippi, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Choctaw
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 68A00002
label: USNM Number
content: E5451-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sherd