Candleholder
Object Details
- Collection History
- Excavated in 1919 by members of the Hendricks-Hodge Hawikku Expedition, led by anthropologist Frederick Webb Hodge (1864-1956, MAI staff member) and sponsored by MAI and MAI trustee Harmon W. Hendricks (1846-1928).
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Date created
- AD 1629–1680
- Catalog Number
- 9/6972
- Barcode
- 096972.000
- Culture/People
- probably A:shiwi (Zuni) (archaeological) (attributed); probably used by Spanish missionaries
- Expedition
- Hendricks-Hodge Hawikku Expedition (1917-1923)
- Expedition leader
- Frederick Webb Hodge (F.W. Hodge), Non-Indian, 1864-1956
- Expedition sponsor
- Harmon W. Hendricks (Harmon Washington Hendricks), Non-Indian, 1846-1928
- Object Type
- Furnishings (Home)
- Object Name
- Candleholder
- Media/Materials
- Pottery
- Techniques
- Coiled/hand built, modeled
- Dimensions
- 18 x 9 cm
- Place
- Monastery (Friary), Room 21 (Sacristy); Hawikku (Hawikuh) Pueblo ruins; Zuni Reservation; Cibola County; New Mexico; USA
- See related items
- A:shiwi (Zuni) (archaeological)
- Non-Indian
- Furnishings (Home)
- On View
- NMAI, New York, NY: Infinity of Nations, Southwest
- Record ID
- NMAI_104371
- Usage
- CC0
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