Pottery Figure Of A Man, Rain God
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Jul 1947
name: label: Collector
content: Miss Elizabeth Stillman
label: Donor Name
content: Miss Elizabeth Stillman
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Seated figure, supposedly of the rain god, holding a bowl in its lap to catch the rain. Grey colored unglazed clay, with faint reddish bands painted across face, the latter with slit eyes and mouth. Similar figurines of micaceous clay have been found as far south as Mexico. All, presumably, are the work of the upper Rio Grande pueblos. The letters MSTT that are found on some of these figurines stand for Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co. which extened its lines in an unusually wet year. Indians thought the Company brought on the rain hence placed the letters on their rain-god figurines. Though this type of figure is an old Tesuque type, they were made in quantity after 1898 for the Gunther Candy Co. of Chicago, Ill. Refer to: "The Living Museum", vol. 16, no. 9, pp 550-1, Jan. 1955 which details this history. Refer to, for similar figures, cat. Nos. 361,921, loan no. 102, 351,049."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
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: 176775
label: USNM Number
content: E385854-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure