Effigy Jug
68-33-1
From: United States of America | Tennessee | Cumberland County (Tennessee)
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 68-33-1 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Mound (Culture) |
| Provenience | United States of America | Tennessee | Cumberland County (Tennessee) |
| Culture Area | Southeast Culture Area |
| Date Made | ca. 1400 |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Clay |
| Iconography | Human |
| Description | "Moundsville Blackware" (Named after the site of Moundsville, Alabama where Moorehead first noted the type in the stone box graves with other Southern Cult objects). Weeping eye design scatched on the face, ears are pierced, has a hunched back. No informaion came with specimen, the owner thought it was modern Omaha. |
| Height | 16.5 cm |
| Width | 13 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 13.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. Kent Wohl, 1968 |
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