Council House Museum Eating Bowl

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Item's Choctaw Name: Ampo

Item's English Name: Eating Bowl (Chickachae Combed)

Age: ca.1830

Material: Clay, mixed with burned bone.

Dimensions:

Height = 7cm

Interior Rim Diameter: 12.12cm

Rim Thickness = 7.86mm

Max diameter 16.05 cm

Origin: This vessel is said to have come from Mississippi to Oklahoma with a Choctaw family on the Trail of Tears

Current Owner: Choctaw Nation Museum

Location: Tuskahoma, OK

Notes - This vessel is well-made, smooth on the interior, and highly burnished on the exterior. The design stripe is 4.83 mm wide, with four teeth. The design repeats 5 times around the vessel. It was fired rim-down. Walls are a fairly consistent thickness through out.