Jar

Mississippian Culture
Southeast

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about 900-1500

Low-fired shell-tempered clay, slipped and burnished

Overall: 9 1/2 × 7 3/8 in. (24.2 × 18.8 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Horatio Nelson Rust

13.20.820

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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