Terraced Bowl
date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 Jul 1991
label: Collection Date
content: 1880 to 1884
name: label: Collector
content: Col. James Stevenson
label: Collector
content: Mrs Matilda C. Stevenson
label: Donor Name
content: Bonham's Auction House
notes: label: Notes
content: TERRACED BOWL WITH HANDLE. WHITE SLIP. EXTERIOR DESIGN OF HORNED TOADS PAINTED IN BLACK ABOVE TWO SNAKES, PAINTED IN BLACK & RED. FOUR DRAGONFLIES (TWO RED, TWO BLACK) PAINTED ON INTERIOR TERRACED RIM. BONHAM'S AUCTION HOUSE LOT #267. ACCORDING TO WILLIAM STURTEVANT, NMNH CURATOR, THE RED "--14" ON THE INTERIOR OF THE BOWL IS A STEVENSON ORIGINAL NUMBER, INDICATING THE BOWL WAS COLLECTED BETWEEN 1880-1884.
label: Notes
content: Maker attributed by Dwight Lanmon to be We'wha. Reference: p. 86, and 93-94 in "We'wha: A Zuni Man-Woman and His Pottery", by Dwight P. Lanmon; The Walpole Society Notebook, 2003-2004; Printed for the Society: 2006. See also pp. 522-5 in Lanmon, Dwight P., and Francis Harvey Harlow. 2008. The pottery of Zuni Pueblo. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press. In Fig. 34.48, p. 522, Lanmon illustrates a National Anthropological Archives photo of We'wha holding a vessel, which Lanmon identifies as vessel # E425653. The photo is National Anthropological Archives ref. # SPC Sw Zuni NM No # People 02440800 (SPS neg. # 85-8666). The vessel itself is illustrated in Fig. 23.28, p. 333, in Lanmon 2008.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Aug 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, New Mexico, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Zuni (A:shiwi)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 387018
label: USNM Number
content: E425653-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pot
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 23.5 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 14 cm