Figure

About this object

History of use

Possibly made for sale for tourists.

Cultural context

decoration

Iconographic meaning

Zuni rain god ?

Physical description

Squatting figure; right arm broken off at torso, right leg, left arm and leg broken off leaving stumps of different lengths; open hollow mouth; hollow nostrils; slanting hollow eyes; slanting forehead; three horn-like appendages, one on top of head, one on each side of head; colour red-brown with light grey neck and front horn-like appendages; light grey circle around right horn-like appendage; hollow with loose material inside; 'R.20.' inscribed in black letters on back.