IDNO

P.9038.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Zuni woman with pot. New Mexico.” [typed text]

The pot is decorated with painted deer with a white heart line, symbolic for Zuni art. The woman wears a manta (black over shirt) with a lace apron, and Spanish embroidered shawl, wrapped deer skin leggings which are attached to a short moccasin, and a silver squash blossom neck ornament. [Zuni Community members, JD 16/3/2007]

Place

N America; United States of America; New Mexico

Cultural Affliation

Native North American; Southwest Indian; Pueblo; Zuni

Named Person

Photographer

Collector / Expedition

Date

?1917 - ?1923

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Heye, George GustavMuseum of the American Indian, N.Y.

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Source: The Museum Annual Report, 1937, states:
“Haddon Photographic Collection. This continues to increase in numbers satisfactorily and several good collections have been given, although, owing to lack of funds, it has not been possible to have all the photographs mounted. Mr Clarke has continued to shew his interest in the photographs and through his kindness [the Museum] has acquired ... two very fine collections of Eskimo and North American Indians from the National Museum of Canada and the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation”. p.2. [JD 21/4/2007]

Source: A letter from George Heye, dated 24th April 1935, to Alfred Haddon congratulating him on his eightieth birthday and enclosing 15 photographs of Native Americans is amongst the Haddon Photo Papers, W06/1/14. [JD 1/5/2016]

Clothing: The woman’s deer skin leggings are distinctive of Zuni, with the thickness of the leggings indicative of the woman’s status, that is, the thicker the leggings the higher the status and the more beautiful the woman is considered to be. [Zuni Community members, JD 16/3/2007]

Biographical Information: George Gustav Heye (1874-1956) was a private collector who amassed the “largest existing collection representing the aboriginal cultures of this hemisphere. ... From 1904 onward, he was not satisfied with mere purchases of specimens, but sent out well-financed expeditions which brought in material with accurate field data. ... Heye himself was a member of many early expeditions and helped publish the results”. (p.66) He also created the Museum of the American Indian to house it. [Source: George Gustav Heye. 1874-1956, by S. K. Lothrop, American Antiquity © 1957 Society for American Archaeology, JD 26/3/2007]

Bibliographical Reference: Guide to the Hendricks-Hodge Archaeological Expedition Papers. 1917-1923.
Collection Number: 9170. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library. [Source: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM09170.html, [JD 26/3/2007]

Bibliographical Reference: 1924 Excavations at Kechipauan, New Mexico. Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, Indian Notes 1(1):35-36. [JD 26/3/2007]

Source: The Hendricks-Hodge Archaeological Expedition, 1917-1923 was funded by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. It was one of the most extensive such projects ever conducted in the Southwest. Zuni Indians participated in the excavation of their ancestral villages of Hawikku and, Kechiba:wa, sometimes seen as Hawikuh and Kechipauan. Sophisticated archaeological techniques led to the excavation of thousands of artifacts.
Lothrop's excavations at the Zuni ruin of Kechipauan, 1923, was also funded by Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. George Heye, the founder of the Museum of the American Indian, was the source of this photograph. [JD 26/3/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 16/4/2007]