(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. (b) Bear fetish, serpentine with shell arrow and shell/turquoise beads. (c) Bear fetish, carved jet. Sacred cornmeal 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
Maker or artist:
Marnelita Phillips [Zuni]
Collector:
Joseph Parent
Collection date:
August 1984
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels), Carvings (visual works), and Fetishes