Earthenware Vessel
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1838 to 1842
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "GLAZED & ORNAMENTED... ORIG. # 1756."
label: Notes
content: Peale catalogue describes #s 1739 - 1758 as "Water jars, and other articles of earthenware of Fiji manufacture. Those with spouts are used in drinking - but are never allowed to touch the lips."
label: Notes
content: Top half of vessel is decorated in a leaf-like pattern, with bottom half plain. Has a 2.7 cm. diameter hole on top, a spout, and a handle. Attached to handle is a piece of bark tied into a bow. There is a crack running down center bottom of vessel. Has original Peale # label.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Apr 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fiji, Melanesia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fijian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E2817-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pot
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 15.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 14.8 cm