Native Name | Wei-Ma |
Object Number | 22632 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Pueblo | Zuni |
Provenience | New Mexico |
Culture Area | Southwest Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Stone | Sinew | Shell |
Iconography | Animal |
Description | Animal fetish with an irregularly shaped body that is pointed in the back and grooved at the neck. The head has two inset eyes and a vertical cleft in the forehead. A string of discoidal, shell beads is attached to the back using a plant fiber cord wrapped around the body. Carved from a gray and red stone. |
Height | 1.8 cm |
Length | 4.3 cm |
Width | 1.9 cm |
Credit Line | Southwest Expedition; R. Stewart Culin; subscription of Robert C. H. Brock, 1902 |
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