Cooking Pot
date: label: Accession Date
content: 22 Nov 2006
label: Collection Date
content: 2003
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Mary Jo Arnoldi
label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: Red clay pot with rounded bottom and sides. Wide opening with lip. Line of tiny dots impressed around the pot about 3 inches from the top, but otherwise undecorated. Outside has a mottled or crackled appearance. Inside is darkened and scratched from use. Mary Jo Arnoldi, Curator for African Ethnology, says this kind of pottery is "low fire ware that is made by women potters, who are members of the blacksmith caste in south central Mali." It was purchased in Bamako market to be used as a decorative prop during the 2003 SI Folklife Festival (see accession history)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Nov 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Washington, District of Columbia, Mali / United States, Africa / North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Malian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2034092
label: USNM Number
content: E432924-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cooking Pot
physicalDescription: label: Maximum Diameter
content: ca. 29 cm
label: Height
content: ca. 24 cm