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Council House Museum Eating Bowl

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.

Eating Bowl 2

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