Hooded Owl Effigy Water Bottle

Mississippian Culture
Southeast

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Mississippian Period (1000-1500)

Gray earthenware

Overall: 4 15/16 × 3 9/16 in. (12.6 × 9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Alexis Chapman Proctor, Class of 1918

167.38.24228

Geography

Place Made: Mississippi River area, United States, North America

Object Name

Pottery

Research Area

Funerary Objects

Native American: Southeast

Native American

Not on view

Exhibition History

Gene Y. Kim, Class of 1985, Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22, 1992-December 14, 1993.

Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 8, 2011-March 12, 2012.

Publication History

[Tamara Northern], "Native American Art". Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, page . (Published in conjunction with Gutman Gallery opening exhibition))

George P. Horse Capture, Sr., Joe D. Horse Capture, Joseph M. Sanchez, et al., Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, ill. on p. 121 and p. 178, no. 163.

Provenance

Purchased by Frank Proctor (1856-1924, Class of 1878), about 1900; to his nephew Alexis Chapman Proctor (1895-1979, Class of 1918), Franklin, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1967.

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