Bowl in the Shape of Underwater Serpent with Upturned Neck and Coiled Tail

Arts of the Americas

1000–1400

Mississippian
Arkansas, United States

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Culture: Mississippian
Title: Bowl in the Shape of Underwater Serpent with Upturned Neck and Coiled Tail
Place: Arkansas (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1000–1400
Medium: Ceramic
Dimensions: 8.9 × 19.7 cm (3 1/2 × 7 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Buckingham Fund and James W. Ellsworth
Reference Number: 1961.921
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C.W. Riggs [‘Captain’ Chauncy Wales Riggs (1857–1917)], Chicago, active 1884–1894 [M. Kwas, A Practical Mound Explorer, 2002 and R. Mainfort, Jr., Sam Dellinger, 2008, 21 for information about C.W. Riggs; this and the following according to correspondence from Milwaukee Public Museum, Apr. 25, 2002, copy in curatorial object file]; given to Milwaukee Public Museum, before 1961 [MPM number A16/CW Riggs; incoming permanent receipt RX3573, June 16, 1961, copy in curatorial object file]; by exchange to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1961.

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