Jar
Mississippian Culture
Southeast
1550-1650
Low-fired shell-tempered clay with heavy orange brown slip
Overall: 4 1/8 × 3 7/16 in. (10.5 × 8.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Winston Fearn Garth and her grandson Winston Fearn Garth II, Class of 1935
35.25.4651
Geography
Place Made: Nodena Site, United States, North America
Object Name
Pottery
Research Area
Funerary Objects
Native American: Southeast
Native American
Not on view
Provenance
From the excavations at the Upper Nodena site, Arkansas (SMS4), directed by Walter B. Jones (1895-1977), Director of the Alabama Museum of Natural History, University, Alabama, in 1932 (1932.002); objects selected by Walter B. Jones for Lena Garth (Mrs. Winston Fearn Garth,1860-1938), Huntsville, Alabama; purchased by Lena Garth for the Dartmouth College Museum; given to the present collection by Lena Garth and her grandson, Winston Fearn Garth II (1913-1980), Class of 1935, in 1935.
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