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<p>[QUOTE="Taupou, post: 1425636, member: 45"]It's not Native American. Possibly a pottery project, made for school or sale or use in a play or something. The top looks like it was thrown on a potter's wheel and attached to the canteen. Native Americans never used a potter's wheel.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is not a form traditionally used by the few Native Americans that used pottery canteens. (Most used water ollas, carried on top of the head.) Size isn't mentioned, but authentic canteens were rather large, worn carried on ones back, with a tump line. The ones you see today, even from the late 1800s, were made for sale to tourists, and are therefore usually decorated, and much smaller.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the old Native American canteens, the side resting on the back was flat, the other side was rounded, to hold more water. They had attached lugs on the sides, not holes drilled through the canteen itself. The use of jute rope here makes it look more like a 1970s macrame project.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Taupou, post: 1425636, member: 45"]It's not Native American. Possibly a pottery project, made for school or sale or use in a play or something. The top looks like it was thrown on a potter's wheel and attached to the canteen. Native Americans never used a potter's wheel. It is not a form traditionally used by the few Native Americans that used pottery canteens. (Most used water ollas, carried on top of the head.) Size isn't mentioned, but authentic canteens were rather large, worn carried on ones back, with a tump line. The ones you see today, even from the late 1800s, were made for sale to tourists, and are therefore usually decorated, and much smaller. On the old Native American canteens, the side resting on the back was flat, the other side was rounded, to hold more water. They had attached lugs on the sides, not holes drilled through the canteen itself. The use of jute rope here makes it look more like a 1970s macrame project.[/QUOTE]
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