Bottle Sherd
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Bottle Sherd
1829-1850
Glass
2 3/8 in. x 1 9/16 in. x 3/16 in. (6 cm x 4 cm x 0.5 cm)
Bryn Mawr College
Accession Number:
73.1.36
Acquisition Date:
1969 - 1973
Geography:
North and Central America, United States, Washington, Fort Vancouver
(Kanaka Village)
Classification:
Containers and Vessels; Vessels; Bottles
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- bottles - Vessels having a neck and mouth considerably narrower than the body, used for packaging and containing liquid and dry preparations. For vessels having wider necks and mouths, use "jars."
- glass - An amorphous, inorganic substance made by fusing silica (silicon dioxide) with a basic oxide; generally transparent but often translucent or opaque. Its characteristic properties are its hardness and rigidity at ordinary temperatures, its capacity for plastic working at elevated temperatures, and its resistance to weathering and to most chemicals except hydrofluoric acid. Used for both utilitarian and decorative purposes, it can be formed into various shapes, colored or decorated. Glass originated as a glaze in Mesopotamia in about 3500 BCE and the first objects made wholly of glass date to about 2500 BCE.
- sherds - Limited to fragments of pottery or glass.
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