Pottery Image
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Jul 1879
name: label: Collector
content: N/A
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Ferdinand V. Hayden
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "POTTERY FIGURE, "RAIN GOD". ALTHOUGH LISTED IN ORIGINAL CAT. BOOK AS HOPI, WALPI, THIS FIGURE IS TESUQUE IN ORIGIN. PERHAPS ORIGINALLY OBTAINED AT WALPI? BGS SEATED MALE FIGURE OF REDDISH, MICACEOUS CLAY WITH WIDE OPEN HANDS RESTING ON THE KNEES. THE FACE MODELLED WITH SOME DEFINITION OF CHIN, EARS, NOSE LONGER THAN THE OTHERS OF SIMILAR TYPE. EYES ARE OF THE BEAN TYPE RATHER THAN JUST SLITS, & BROW RIDGES ARE SHOWN. MOUTH IN THIS ONE IS NARROW. REFERENCE SHOULD BE MADE TO THE TESUQUE RAIN-GOD FIGURES (385854, ETC.) HOLDING A POT, WHICH ARE SIMILAR IN MANY WAYS. ALSO REFER TO A VERY SIMILAR FIGURE, 338778 & 79. R. ELDER. REPAIRED CONSERVATION LAB 4/4/1973. ILLUS.: HNDBK. OF N. AMER. INDIANS, VOL. 9, SOUTHWEST, FIG. 7, PG. 334. SEE P. 57 AND FOOTNOTE 46, P. 200 OF JONATHAN BATKIN; POTTERY OF THE PUEBLOS OF NEW MEXICO, 1700-1940; COLORADO SPRINGS FINE ARTS CENTER; 1987, WHERE OBJECT IS IDENTIFIED AS EARLIEST DOCUMENTED EXAMPLE OF TESUQUE "RAIN GOD."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 May 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: New Mexico, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Tesuque
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 79A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E35407-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure