Lidded vessel
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Nov 2019
label: Collection Date
content: 1970
name: label: Collector
content: Jane Bandler
label: Collector
content: Donald Bandler
label: Donor Name
content: Mona Gavigan
notes: label: Notes
content: Height with lid. Unglazed red clay pot with 3D lizards and frog-like humans on the shoulder, and lizards on the lid.
label: Notes
content: From donor: Ushafa with Gwari influence, Northwestern State, Nigeria. Collected in 1970 in situ from potter who made such pots for ritual use by Jane and Donald Bandler who published an article about this pottery. See African Arts, Vol. X#3, 1977 copy inside pot. Natural unglazed red-orange clay; opposing squatting three-dimensional figures atop with opposing fat lizard-like creatures between them; a pair of same lizard-like creatures on lid. Charming composition.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Northwest, Nigeria, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2077558
label: USNM Number
content: E436274-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pot
physicalDescription: label: Width
content: 21 cm
label: Depth
content: 20 cm
label: Height
content: 24 cm