H74.639.2404

17.75 in HIGH
(45.08 cm HIGH)
H74.639.2404


Olla, pottery. Description: Reddish color with dark spots and stains, broken and cracked badly around top and side, pieces missing. Hole in side,loose piece near top. Condition:poor. Remarks: Very fragile Storage: Tribe unk, (Southwest). "Kumeyaay or Cahuilla. Used for storage--seeds, clothing, or almost anything else."(Lowell Bean, 7/92) From the History Information Station "Object: Clay pot, or olla, collected in the Southwest. History: Clay ollas like this one are made by building up successive layers of clay coils. The walls of the olla are smoothed to an even thickness by packing them between a smooth, round pebble held on the insdie and a wooden paddle on the outside. The ollas are fired in a large pit partially filled with dry oak bark and manure. A number of these pots are piled in the pit together and covered with the manurey concoction, which is set afire. The fire burns all night and in the morning the pots are ready for use. Potters made these clay pots in a number of diffrerent sizes and shapes. This globular, small-mouthed vessel was used for the storage of seeds; similar vessels with wider mouths were used for cooking; and shallow, bowl-shaped ones were used as serving dishes."

Used: storage

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