Bowl with a Bird Head attached to Rim (two pieces)
Mississippian Culture
Southeast
about 900-1500
Low-fired shell-tempered clay, slipped and burnished
Overall: 4 3/16 × 6 7/8 in. (10.7 × 17.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Horatio Nelson Rust
13.20.816
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
1000-1400
Object Name
Pottery
Research Area
Funerary Objects
Native American: Southeast
Native American
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Horatio Nelson Rust (1826-1906), 1876-77 (possibly at either the Spanish Grant site or the Sandy Woods site, Missouri); given to Samuel Colcord Bartlett (1817-1898, Class of 1836, 8th President of Dartmouth College, 1877-1892), in 1881; catalogued by present collection, 1913.
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