ASM’s collection of historic Native American canteens are primarily of Hopi manufacture, but also includes examples from Western and Rio Grande Pueblos of New Mexico and Tohono O’odham of southern Arizona.
![Polacca Polychrome canteen](/sites/default/files/styles/az_large/public/4067_p02.jpg?itok=KnobjoMi)
Polacca Polychrome canteen with house-of-the-water-serpent design, ca. 1885-1900, Hopi Mesas, AZ. Unknown artist. Dr. Joshua A. Miller Collection, gift of the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society, 1917. Max. length: 7 in. (17 cm.).
(Catalog No. 4067)
![Cochiti black-on-gray canteen](/sites/default/files/styles/az_large/public/1994-76-5_p01.jpg?itok=UDef7H0A)
Cochiti black-on-gray canteen with rain cloud motifs, 1994, Cochiti, NM. Elizabeth Trujillo. ASM purchase, collected by Jan Bell. Max. length: 8.25 in. (20.9 cm.). (Catalog No. 1994-76-5)
![Detail of 1994-76-5.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_large/public/1994-76-5_p03.jpg?itok=LnoSbZyb)
Detail of 1994-76-5.
![Tohono O’odham Black-on-red canteen](/sites/default/files/styles/az_large/public/E-5717_p04.jpg?itok=CjUXULmt)
Tohono O’odham Black-on-red canteen, ca. 1940, Tohono O’odham Reservation, AZ. Unknown artist. Collected by Mrs. C.F. Roberts, exchange with Arizona Historical Society, 1963. Max. length: 7.5 in. (18.9 cm.). (Catalog No. E-5717)
This canteen shape, made by O’odham and Pee Posh (Maricopa) potters, was fashioned after metal military canteens.
![Top view of E-5717.](/sites/default/files/styles/az_large/public/E-5717_p09.jpg?itok=DT4DFh6c)
Top view of E-5717.