Silver Worker's Mold "Ale Teananne"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 27 Jan 1905
name: label: Collector
content: Mrs Matilda C. Stevenson
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Slab of red sandstone on the surface of which are depressions in which blanks are molded. Made by grandfather of aged man in Shumakwe fraternity."
label: Notes
content: This is probably part of a set of silver-making tools purchased by Matilda Coxe Stevenson in 1902 from Lanyade [a.k.a. La:niyahdi], the first Zuni to learn silversmithing. Reference: p. 126 in Adair, John. 1944. The Navajo and Pueblo silversmiths. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. See also pp. 58 - 59 in Ostler, James, Marian Rodee, and Milford Nahohai. 1996. Zuni: a village of silversmiths. [Albuquerque, NM?]: Zuni A:shiwi Pub. .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Zuni, Zuni Reservation / Mckinley County, New Mexico, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Zuni (A:shiwi)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 043829
label: USNM Number
content: E234529-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mold