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Description
Arcaded handle jar with incised parallel lines, interior beveled and notched lip or upper rim, and four interconnected swirls or volutes on body. Jars such as this one may have been employed to transform mundane concoctions into sacred medicines used to purify ritual practitioners. This jar from Chucalissa dates to the late sixteenth century or early seventeenth century.
Date
16th Century, 17th Century
Recommended Citation
Dye, David, "Arcaded Handle Jar" (2022). Artifacts. 9.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/chnash-museum-chucalissa-gallery2/9
Keywords
Pottery; Arcaded Handle Jar; Mississippian; David Dye; David Dye Exhibit; Exhibit Photographs
