Jar
Item
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Title
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Jar
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Tribe
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Hopi
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Location
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Arizona
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Dimensions
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15 x 10 x 10 inches 38.1 x 25.4 x 25.4 cm
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Accession Number
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NAB-17
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Collector
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Wesley Powell
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Description
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This jar is labeled Moki, a word that used to be used to describe the Hopi tribe of Arizona. However, current scholarship in pitched basketry jars such as this one suggests that it was more likely made by the Southern Paiute, who traded it to the Hopi, who used it for transporting water. It was collected at Hopi by John Wesley Powell, who sent it to the Smithsonian in 1883 via Mindeleff, an architect who was working in the Southwest at the time.
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Media
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Pitched basketry
Jar