Small Earthenware Jar
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 Nov 1945
name: label: Collector
content: Joseph R. Vance
label: Donor Name
content: Deane H. Vance
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOTE: ACCORDING TO THE ACCESSION RECORDS, THIS EARTHENWARE JAR IS FROM THE ZUNI PUEBLO BUT WAS FOUND IN THE CLIFF DWELLINGS OF MESA VERDE IN THE EARLY 1880'S BY THE DONOR'S FATHER, JOSEPH RENSLAW VANCE, DESCRIBED BY THE DONOR AS "AN EARLY PIONEER OF WESTERN COLORADO." (THE CARD CATALOG LISTED PROVENIENCE AS "VALENCIA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO", PRESUMABLY FOR THE SITE OF ZUNI, WHICH IS NOW IN MCKINLEY COUNTY.) ... FROM CARD: GLOBOSE, WITH INCURVED, UNDULATE MARGIN. BRICK COLOR TERRA COTTA WITH OUTER WALLS COVERED WITH KAOLIN SLIP. DECORATIVE DESIGN: TWO PARALLEL BLACK LINES ENCIRCLE MARGIN. CROOKS ("NETSIKAWE") PAINTED ALTERNATELY BLACK AND RED EXTEND VERTICALLY FROM MARGINAL BANDS TO BOTTOM AND ARE REPEATED AROUND CIRCUMFERENCE. DESIGN PARTLY OBLITERATED. SYMBOLISM OF THE PAINTED CROOKS IS PROBABLY THAT THEY REPRESENT FLOWERS ALL AROUND A PRAYER FOR RAIN AND MANY FLOWERS.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mesa Verde National Park / Zuni, Montezuma County Colorado) / Mckinley County New Mexico), Colorado / New Mexico, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Zuni (A:shiwi)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 171670
label: USNM Number
content: E383735-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pot