class="tdl">The Mohave pottery style

10 Appendix I. Memoranda on the destroyed Academy collection 12 Appendix II. A small Mohave bowl 12 Appendix III. Granite temper and limonite pigment examination,
by Professor Charles Meyer 13 Appendix IV. Mohave pottery in other museums 13 Appendix V. Correlation of Kroeber and Harner shape classes 13

PART II. A DESCRIPTION FOR THE ARCHAEOLOGIST
PARKER RED-ON-BUFF, FORT MOHAVE VARIANT,
AND PARKER BUFF, FORT MOHAVE VARIANT

By Michael J. Harner

Introduction 15 Introduction 15 Parker Red-on-Buff, Fort Mohave variant 16 Parker Buff, Fort Mohave variant 18 Bibliography 20 Plates 23

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MOHAVE POTTERY

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PART I
ETHNOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS

BY

A. L. KROEBER

POTTERY SHAPES RECOGNIZED BY THE MOHAVE

The generic Mohave name for pottery vessels seems to be kwáθki,[1] the word for bowl.

The shapes for which Mohave names were obtained are mainly those which segregate out objectively on examination of a collection:

kwáθki, an open bowl with slightly everted lip, often with a band of mesquite bark—both bean mesquite and screw mesquite are specified in my notes—tied around the neck. The shape is shown in pls. 1, 2, 6,a-c, 8,d-h; the name kwáθki was specifically applied to 1,d, 2,b, 2,h, 6,a.

kayéθa, a platter, that is, a low round bowl or flat dish without neck or everted lip, was applied to pl. 3,d. The shape is shown in pls. 3,a-d, g, 8,c.

kayúka, pl. 3,c, or kakápa, also a platter, but oval, and smaller. Pls. 3,e, f, h-j, 6,d, e.

kam'óta, a spoon, ladle, dipper, or scoop, more or less triangular. Pls. 4, 7,a-i, 8,i-k. Subclasses were not named to me, except for kam'óta ahmá, those with a quail head at the handle.

katéla, bi-pointed tray for parching. Pl. 6,f, g.

It will be observed that the last five names all begin with ka-.

The name suyíre was given to pl. 6,c, which is intermediate between bowl and platter.

táskyena is a cook pot. Pl. 5,c.

tšuváva, a large cook pot, a foot and a half to two feet high. I have seen one of these in use, full to the brim with maize, beans, and fish, being stirred by an old man with three arrow weed sticks tied in the middle; but I did not secure one. It is set on three conical supports of pottery as shown in pl. 7,n, o.

A still larger pot, up to a yard in diameter, too big to cook in, was sometimes made to ferry small children across the river, a swimmer pushing the vessel (Handbook, 1925, p. 739). I would imagine it would be least likely to tip over if made in the shape of a giant kwáθki bowl.

hápurui, water jar, as kept around the house, "olla" shaped, pls. 5,a, b, 8,a. The name contains the stem for water: (a)há.

I happened not to secure the name of the small-mouthed canteen water jar used in traveling, as shown in pl. 6,h.

A small-mouthed jar with short side-spout at one end, too large for travel and probably used chiefly for storage of seeds, is called hápurui hanemó, "duck jar," from its resemblance to the floating bird. Pl. 6,i.

There are also handled jugs, pl. 5,d-g, and handled cups, pls. 5,h-i, 8,b, which I suspect of having been devised after contact with Americans, although some specimens show use and the painted designs are in good Mohave style. My doubts are strengthened by my having obtained no specific name for either handled shape: the high jug, 5,g, was called a jar, hápurui; the low jug, 5,e, kwáθki, bowl; and in 1900 I bought a cup for which the name kwáθki aha-suraitši was given.

In the dreamed Mastamhó myth of the origin of culture (AR 11:1, 1948, see 7:76, p. 63), the culture hero calls some of the principal vessel forms by two sets of names, the first being recondite, twisted, or punning. The list is: