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Jar, polacca polychrome style, linear design; wooden katcina in jar
Object Number 45-25-10/28886
Display Title Jar, polacca polychrome style, linear design; wooden katcina in jar
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Tcuchkuti
Object Description Jar, polacca polychrome style, linear design; wooden katcina (Tcuchkuti, glutton priest) in jar.
Inventory Description Ceramic jar with lid, red on buff exterior, wood, leather, fabric katcina inside
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hopi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Arizona
Additional Geographic Terms Arizona, northeast
Materials Ceramic
Dimensions Overall: 12 x 16 cm (4 3/4 x 6 5/16 in.) Distance (Width of brown fabric inside bowl): 24.5 cm Distance (width lid): 11 cm Distance (width of notch on lid): 4 cm Distance (Length of jar): 13.51 cm Distance (width of jar): 17 cm Distance (length of kacina doll from bottom of bowl to head): 20 cm Distance (Length of brown fabric inside bowl): 43.5 cm Distance (length of wooden katcina in jar from lower back to head): 11.2 cm Distance (width of head from ear to ear): 5.22 cm Distance (lenght from head to chin): 5.91 cm Distance (top width opening of jar): 11.5 cm Distance (width of shoulder to shoulder): 7.35 cm
Label on object 45-25-10/28886; 3475
Provenance
Collector Thomas V. Keam (1892)
Collector Dr. Jesse Walter Fewkes (1892)
Donor Mary T. Hemenway (May 5, 1945)

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