Jug

Item number M1.34 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Miniature buff-yellow clay jug with one handle and black designs. Jug made from fine-grained, hard-fired clay with a yellowish-white slip over entire surface. The squat broad body sits on a low ring foot. The shoulders slope in sharply at the mid-point to a narrow with a handle ridge. The rim is everted. The vertical handle is attached at the ridge and shoulder. The designs are painted with a gray-black matte paint. The designs consist of a ring of triangles on the rim and three horizontal bands, two straight and one wavy, on the neck. There is a frieze of concentric circle ornaments on upper half of body below which is a group of horizontal bands. There is a band just below the shoulders on the lower body.