Bowl with Wood Duck Finial, Bell Plain type
Mississippian Culture
Southeast
1550-1650
Low-fired shell-tempered clay
Overall: 5 3/8 × 7 9/16 in. (13.7 × 19.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Winston Fearn Garth and her grandson Winston Fearn Garth II, Class of 1935
35.25.4685
Geography
Place Made: Nodena Site, United States, North America
Object Name
Pottery
Research Area
Funerary Objects
Native American: Southeast
Native American
Not on view
Exhibition History
Ancient Native American Pottery, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition; Anthropology 32, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Janaury 7-February 9, 1992.
Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985, Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 22, 1994-January 14, 1996.
Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibitions; Anthropology 32, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 13-March 4, 1990.
Provenance
Harry Payne Collection of northeast Arkansas material; sold to the Alabama Museum of Natural History, University, Alabama, in 1932 (1932.006); selected by Walter B. Jones, Director of the Alabama Museum of Natural History, 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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