Mohave Pottery
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Mohave Pottery - Michael J. Harner
Michael J. Harner, A. L. Kroeber
Mohave Pottery
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Table of Contents
MOHAVE POTTERY
PART I ETHNOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
APPENDIX III
APPENDIX IV
APPENDIX V
PART II
PLATES
MOHAVE POTTERY
Table of Contents
PART I
ETHNOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS
Table of Contents
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:
It will be noted that handled jugs and handled cups are lacking from this list, though so are canteens and round platters.
Small-and-flaring-necked spheroid jars, holding a gallon or more, are found in the region, and in 1900 I secured two Mohave examples which were destroyed in 1906 with the Academy of Sciences building. They served to store seeds, and seem often to have been hidden in caves and out-of-the-way spots by Shoshonean desert tribes. I secured one near Needles in 1908, now no. 13875 in the Museum of Anthropology, but it belonged to a Chemehuevi woman who was born in Chemehuevi Valley and was in 1908 living in Mohave Valley, married to a Mohave who was himself half-Chemehuevi. She had made the jar many years before: in fact, it was the first and last pottery