Medicine Bowl
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880
notes: label: Description
content: James Stevenson (1840-1888) was a self-taught geologist, naturalist, and anthropologist who worked for the U.S. Geological Survey, often in close collaboration with his wife, Matilda Coxe Stevenson (1849-1915). He acquired this bowl from Zuni people in New Mexico, in 1884-5, and deposited it with the Bureau of American Ethnology. An inscription on the bottom reads “111421. / Zuni. / N. M. / Stevenson. / Bur. Ethnol.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Mexico
topic: label: Subject
content: Native Americans
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.111421
label: catalog number
content: 111421
label: accession number
content: 85A00007
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Medicine Bowl
label: Object Name
content: medicine bowl
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: clay (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 8 in x 8 in; 8.89 cm x 20.32 cm x 20.32 cm