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
Not on view

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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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front of object
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front of object
1100–1450 AD
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