Pottery Bowl
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Mar 1968
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. Milburn L. Wilson
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Virginia W. Simons
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: ""Tusayan polychrome ware from 13th century A.D." Dr. Richard Woodbury. Round bottomed, wide open bowl of red pottery, all but base covered with red slip, and inside painted in groups of black lines that look silvery."
label: Notes
content: The meaning of "Tusayan" applied to this bowl is unclear. "Province of Tusayan" was an old alternate name for the Hopi Mesas of Northern Arizona, used by John Wesley Powell among others. (See p. 2 in Fowler, Don D. and Catherine S. Fowler. 1969. "John Wesley Powell's Anthropological Fieldwork". Geological Survey Professional Paper 670: John Wesley Powell and the Anthropology of the Canyon Country. U.S. Geological Survey; see also p. 10 of Euler, Robert C. "The Archaeology of the Canyon Country" in the same publication).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Unknown County, Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tusayan
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 277736
label: USNM Number
content: A450883-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bowl
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 22.3 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 13.3 cm