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Object Number 81-10-30/24512
Display Title Cooking pot with handles, black
Descriptions
Inventory Description Ceramic pot, black, globular body flared rim 2 loop handles broken out 7 sherd
Classification
  • Pot
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Carib
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / British Guiana
Additional Geographic Terms River Essequibo
Materials Ceramic
Dimensions Overall: 8.1 x 18.3 cm (3 3/16 x 7 3/16 in.)
Quantity 8
Label on object 24512 & Carib Pottery/River Essequibo,/British Guiana/Ward & Howell, Rochester,
Provenance
Collector Prof. Orton (1881)
Collector Prof. Henry A. Ward (1881)

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