Fetish Jar

CultureZuni
Titles
  • Fetish Jar
Date1900–1910
PlaceZuñi Pueblo, New Mexico, United States
MediumEarthenware with slip, antlers, rawhide, feathers, shell, turquoise, and encrustation
Dimensionso/a: 8 1/2 × 15 1/2 × 15 1/2 in.
Credit LineGift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object number44.166
Non exposé

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Provenance[Kirk Brothers, Gallup, NM]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg (1882–1975), Houston, 1943–1944; given to MFAH, 1944.
Exhibition History"Pueblo of Zuni: Arts," at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, from Oct. 24, 1995 to Feb. 18, 1996. (LN: 95.36)

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Earthenware with slip, antler, leather, shell, turquoise, and feathers
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1100–1350
Earthenware with slip and encrustation
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1910–1925
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44.421
Salimopia Shelow'ona (Red Salimopia, Warrior of the South) Kachina Figure
1910–1925
Wood, paint, feathers, cotton and wool cloth, felt, satin ribbon, leather, rawhide, paper, yucca strips, evergreen twigs, and string
44.423
Salimopia Kohan'ona (White Salimopia, Warrior of the East) Kachina Figure
1910–1925
Wood, paint, feathers, cotton and wool cloth, felt, satin ribbon, leather, rawhide, paper, yucca strips, evergreen twigs, and string
44.422
Shalako Mana (Cloud Maiden) Kachina Figure
1920–1940
Wood, paint, feathers, shell, and string
44.399
front of object
1100–1450 AD
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