Water Jar

NA9038

Curatorial Section: American

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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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