Meal

Museum number:
2-10455
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020010455
Accession number:
Acc.543
Description:
Yellow or white corn meal stained by being saturated by a brown liquid (perhaps yucca juice).
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber, Elsie Clews Parsons, and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Zuni, Zuni Reservation, McKinley County
Verbatim coll. place:
Zuni
Culture or time period:
Zuni
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1918
Taxon:
Zea mays
Object type:
ethnography
Accession date:
1919
Context of use:
Used in a performance of the Olowish dance, and handed out to spectators.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Meal, accession number 2-10455, described as Yellow or white corn meal stained by being saturated by a brown liquid (perhaps yucca juice).Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Meal, accession number 2-10455, described as Yellow or white corn meal stained by being saturated by a brown liquid (perhaps yucca juice).

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