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Bowl/Dish in the form of a duck

American Indian Museum

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Object Details

Culture/People

Eastern Band of Cherokee

Artist/Maker

attributed to Elizabeth Bigmeat Jackson, Eastern Band of Cherokee, 1919-2008

Previous owner

Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Department of the Interior (IACB), 1935-

Collection History

Purchased by Indian Arts and Crafts Board representatives from an unknown source at an unknown date; part of the IACB Headquarters collection (Department of the Interior, Washington, DC) until 2000 when it was transferred to NMAI.

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Date created

circa 1975

Catalog Number

26/1329

Barcode

261329.000

Object Type

Containers and Vessels

Object Name

Bowl/Dish in the form of a duck

Media/Materials

Pottery

Techniques

Coiled/hand built, modeled, burnished, incised

Dimensions

12.2 x 8.5 x 10.3 cm

Place

Eastern Cherokee Reservation, Qualla Boundary; Jackson County and Swain County; North Carolina; USA (inferred)

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Eastern Band of Cherokee
Containers and Vessels

Data Source

National Museum of the American Indian

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws69a6d7b69-8414-4821-9d98-3ff243a1163e

Record ID

NMAI_277426

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