Cooking Pot
52-42-20
From: New Guinea | Goodenough Island | Bwaidoga | D'Entrecasteaux Islands | Amphlett Islands
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 52-42-20 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | New Guinea | Goodenough Island | Bwaidoga | D'Entrecasteaux Islands | Amphlett Islands |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Clay |
| Description | Poorly fired blackware. In fragments. Rounded bottom and sides inturned at rim which slightly overhangs the interior. Rim triangular in section with band of short diagonal ridges inside of sharp top ridge. Manufactured in the Amphlett Islands (between d'Entrecasteaux Islands and Trobriand) which is the pottery making center. Traded. |
| Height | 15.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 28 cm |
| Credit Line | New Guinea Ethnological Reconnaissance; Ward Goodenough, 1952 |
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