Bowl

Museum number:

2-67035a

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm2102067035a

Accession number:

Acc.3958

Description:

(a) Wide mouth clay jar with outside surface covered with Kingman Mine turquoise granules; round hole in side; 4 serpentine bear fetishes, each with shell arrow, ground turquoise, clamshell and turquoise beads, feather and leather thong attached to exterior. Sacred cornmeal loose inside bowl, from Shalako ceremony, December 1983.

Donor:

Joseph Parent and Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology Gift Shop [DO NOT USE]

Collection place:

Zuni, Zuni Reservation, McKinley County

Verbatim coll. place:

New Mexico; Zuni

Culture or time period:

Zuni

Collector:

Joseph Parent

Collection date:

August 1984

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Bowls (vessels) and Fetishes

Department:

Native US and Canada (except California)