Pottery Canteen With Carrying Strap
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Jun 1981
name: label: Collector
content: N/A
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Marjorie M. Post
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Paper sticker on specimen: "From the Hopi Villages;" round canteen with flat back; 2 strap handles; short neck. Hopi sash forms carrying strap, red with green strip border. Cream background with brown & rust geometric design on rounded side; flat side undecorated rust color."
label: Notes
content: The "From the Hopi Villages" label/sticker on this canteen indicates it was from the Fred Harvey Company. See Messier, Kim, Pat Messier, and Barton Wright. 2007. Hopi & Pueblo Tiles : An Illustrated History. Tucson, Ariz.: Rio Nuevo Publishers.You can see examples of the Harvey Company label online at the following link, which indicates the label on E418975A is the original version of of the label (the typeface changed, presumably in the 1920s): https://web.archive.org/web/20250830201448/https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/12691911-hopi-pottery-tiles-sold-by-fred-harvey-company . Fred Harvey (1835-1901) began a partnership with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1878. In 1889, the Railway gave Harvey exclusive rights to manage and operate his eating houses, lunch stands, and hotel facilities upon the Santa Fe's railroads west of the Missouri River. After his death, Harvey's sons, Ford and Byron took over the family business. In 1902, at the urging of Fred Harvey's daughter Minnie Harvey Huckel, The Fred Harvey Company began to purchase, display and sell Native American Art via its Indian Department. Minnie Harvey Huckel's husband, John Frederick Huckel, was the head of the Fred Harvey Company Indian Department, but company agent Herman Schweizer was the man who set the direction for the company's successful artifact trade. Schweizer not only acquired objects for the tourist trade, he also purchased Native American art for exhibit in the Fred Harvey Company Indian Building in Albuquerque, NM. The company participated in the 1904 Louisiana Purchase World's Fair (St. Louis) and the 1915 fairs in San Diego and San Francisco. Through the early 1900s, the company was actively buying and selling Native American art to collectors and museums, including purchasing entire collections. Prior to the creation of the Indian Department, Native peoples took advantage of train stops on their reservations as an opportunity to sell their goods to passing travelers. With the creation of the Indian Department, Native Americans became employed as salespeople and artist-demonstrators at Harvey Hotels.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Aug 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hopi
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 318782
label: USNM Number
content: E418975A-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pot / Sash