Native Name | Wei-Ma |
Object Number | 22629 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Pueblo | Zuni |
Provenience | New Mexico |
Culture Area | Southwest Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Clay | Sinew | Shell |
Iconography | Animal |
Description | Animal fetish with a stocky body, short legs, and a wide, hanging tail. The head has two inset eyes, a horizontal slit for a mouth, and a vertical cleft in the forehead. A shell fragment and a string of discoidal shell beads are attached to the back using a plant fiber cord wrapped around the body. Gray ware. |
Height | 2.5 cm |
Length | 3.2 cm |
Width | 2.2 cm |
Credit Line | Southwest Expedition; R. Stewart Culin; subscription of Robert C. H. Brock, 1902 |
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