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Object Number 53-27-10/34425
Display Title Square pottery bowl (prayer meal bowl)
Descriptions
Inventory Description Bowl, square, castelated, polychrome, one perforated hole
Classification
  • Bowl
Department Ethnographic
Date ca. 1900
Culture
  • Hopi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Arizona / Navajo County / Hopi Reservation / First Mesa
Additional Geographic Terms First Mesa
Materials Ceramic
Dimensions Overall: 7.9 x 11.3 cm (3 1/8 x 4 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53-27-10/34425/#56
Provenance
Collector Dr. Alfred Vincent Kidder (ca. 1915)
Donor Donated by Dr. Alfred Vincent Kidder (1953)

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