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Zuni meal basket

USA

 

Collected by James Stevenson

Given to the Museum in 1896

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Meal basket, USA

This pottery vessel has been shaped to look like a basket. It would have been used for sprinkling sacred cornmeal during ceremonies. It has been decorated with figures of frogs, tadpoles, and dragonflies. Its terraced rim represents clouds.

View database record 1896.54.46