Bowl in the Nodena Red-on-Buff Style
Mississippian Culture
Southeast
Mississippian Period (1000-1500)
Low-fired shell-tempered clay, heavy beige slip with orange red paint
Overall: 3 1/8 × 7 7/8 in. (8 × 20 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Winston Fearn Garth and her grandson Winston Fearn Garth II, Class of 1935
35.25.4686
Geography
Place Made: possibly Potter Mound Site, United States, North America
Object Name
Pottery
Research Area
Funerary Objects
Native American: Southeast
Native American
Not on view
Publication History
[Northern, Tamara]. "Native American Art". Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, page 31 . (Published in conjunctionwith Gutman Gallery opening exhibition)
Provenance
Luther E. Jones Collection of northeast Arkansas material, possibly from the Potter site (3PO23), possibly from the Potter site (3PO23); sold to the Alabama Museum of Natural History, University, Alabama, in 1932 (1932.008); 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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