Native Name | Wei-Ma |
Object Number | 22646 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Pueblo | Zuni |
Provenience | New Mexico |
Culture Area | Southwest Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Clay | Sinew | Shell | Turquoise |
Iconography | Animal |
Description | Mountain Lion (long tail) fetish, long body with long tail curved along the back, round face, short legs. Buff clay with red pigment, two pendants of turquoise strapped to the back of the fetish with twine and shell beads. Represents the direction North, swept or barren place, Yellow Mountain. |
Height | 2.1 cm |
Length | 4.3 cm |
Width | 1.8 cm |
Credit Line | Southwest Expedition; R. Stewart Culin; subscription of Robert C. H. Brock, 1902 |
Other Number | S/P/6 - Field No SF |
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