jar (containers); tobacco containers

Tobacco jar. The ovoid body painted with a calumet-smoking Native American seated under a tobacco plant, beside a large jar with the legend 'VARINAS' on it, bales of tobacco to the left, two galleons in the distance. Label: one yellow exhibition label, printed. There is a maker's mark on the underside, consisting of the initials 'G.P.'.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
nn15312
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 250 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
earthenware; glaze
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
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