Earthen Vase

Pottery jar. Possibly Hopi. Collected by Jesse Walter Fewkes. Fewkes was a marine zoologist and later an anthropologist, archaeologist, and writer. He became director of the Smithsonian Institiution's Bureau of Ethnology. Fewkes conducted extensive research of Native American communities of the Southwest, using his knowledge gained with the Zuni and Hopi tribes to help identify pottery he uncovered in Arizona. He became the first person to record the voices of native peoples using a phonograph, and he was intrumental in calling for the protection of ancient sites from vandalism. His efforts contributed to the passage of the Antiquities Act of 1906.

From card: "Ancient. Large. Yellow ware, decorated." Illus. Pl. CXXVIb after p. 664, in B.A.E. 17th Annual Report, pt. 2. Discussed on p. 660 of the publication.
Described and illustrated (Fig. 2, p. 69) in Schramm, David S., 2013, "Righting the Record: Attributing a "Unique" Pottery Vessel to Nampeyo," American Indian Art Magazine, 38(4):68-81. Schramm identifies the jar as Polacca Polychrome with conventionalized bird motifs and attributes the jar to Nampeyo.