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Effigy
Native American, Missisippian
Prehistoric
about A.D. 900–1400
Object Place: Diehlstadt, Scott County, Missouri, United States, Bootheel
Medium/Technique
Earthenware
Dimensions
8.89 cm (3 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Gardner Brewer and Miss Brewer
Accession Number77.188
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
DescriptionEffigy, probably of fish. Hemispherical bowl with lip beginning to turn in. The bowl becomes the body of the fish. The fish head and tail (broken) are modeled at the bowl shoulder. Two pairs of protuberances are pinched out at shoulder level. Dark gray smudged plain ware.
ProvenanceExcavated near Diehlstadt, MO by George Julius Engelmann (b. 1847 - d. 1903), St. Louis. 1877, gift of Mary Weld (Mrs. Gardner) Brewer (b. 1803 - d. 1888) and Caroline Abigail Brewer (b. 1833 - d. 1898), Boston, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 4, 1877)