Buffalo (bison) carved of light green stone; fetish bundle on back is oval piece of turquoise attached around body with sinew cord; miniature horn horns; inlaid turquoise eyes, coral (?) nostrils.
Donor:
California Alumni Foundation Donation
Collection place:
Zuni, Zuni Reservation, McKinley County
Verbatim coll. place:
New Mexico; Zuni
Culture or time period:
Zuni
Maker or artist:
Leonard Halate
Collector:
Leo Brereton
Collection date:
October 1981
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fetishes and Miniature (size attribute)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions