Fetish

22629

From: New Mexico

Curatorial Section: American

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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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