Native Name | Tus |
Object Number | NA9038 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Western Apache |
Culture Area | Southwest Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Sumac (uncertain) | Willow (uncertain) | Pitch | Devil's Claw |
Technique | Twilled |
Description | Two-lobed, pitch-covered Bilobed water bottle covered with pitch. Upper bulb smaller and almost globular, lower part larger with almost straight sides. Two small lugson upper bulb, one broken off. Design of black band of downward-pointing joined triangles below the neck, on the middle of upper lobe, and below shoulder of lower lobe. Plain black line right below neck. These are designs used by Clan I (see Grenville Goodwin, The Social Organization of the Western Apache, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1942, pp. 117). |
Height | 40.5 cm |
Outside Diameter | 20 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. Richard Waln Meirs, 1918 |
Other Number | A 161 - Field No SF | CG94-2-170 - Found in Collection Number |
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