Pottery Jar
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 May 1892
label: Collection Date
content: 1872
name: label: Collector
content: Brig. Gen. William B. Hazen
label: Collector
content: William Courtenay
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Mildred M. Hazen
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Illus. in BAE Bull. 77, Pl. 41b, p. 120. Globular round-bottomed jar, with slightly constricted neck, and a wide mouth. Flat 1/2" wide rim extends on the outside, with two small opposite handles extending downward from it, and two small lugs alternating with the handles and extending downward from the rim in the same way, all these are marked with diagonal cord impressions. The general shape, rim (though narrower), lugs and handles, and cord impression are very similar to the Mandan specimens cat. nos.: 6348, and 8407. All around the base of the neck are the multiple and overlapping impressions of the ends of the comb teeth as it was started to be drawn from this point downward over the bulge of the sides to the base where they run into each other. (The broad grooves of the comb teeth). Because of the very close similarity of this specimen to the features found in pottery from thoroughly identified Arikara sites, both contact and proto-historic in the Missouri Valley it seems reasonable to Dr. Waldo Wedel to consider this an Arikara specimen. Refer also to Wm. D. Strong: From History to Prehistory in the Northern Great Plains, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 100, pl. 7, fig's. B, D, & H. This specimen was presumably collected in the 1870's while Gen. Hazen was at Fort Buford, Dakota. This specimen is pictured in BAE Bulletin No. 77, pl. 41, b, where it is given the wrong catalog number and therefore wrongly identified as to tribe and collector. When received this specimen had a large hole gone from one side, and this has been very cleverly filled in and blended with the original body color and decoration has been simulated."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort Buford, Williams County, Dakota Territory / 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: 025748
label: USNM Number
content: E167141-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pot
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 19.68 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 18.41 cm