Zuni fetishes
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Zuni fetishes are small carvings made from primarily stone but also shell, fossils, and other materials by the Zuni people. Within the Zuni community, these carvings serve ceremonial purposes for thei
Wolf fetish with medicine bundle and heartline carved by Stuart Lasiloo; jet, turquoise, coral, shell heshi; 2" L x 1.25" H x .5" W
A grouping of hand-carved Zuni fetish objects by the Zuni artist Erik Lasiloo
Double stranded Zuni fetish necklace with eagle fetish in center, 40 total fetishes made from turquoise, jet, pipestone, serpentine, mother of pearl, spiny oyster shell. The fetishes are strung on fine sinew strung with olive shell and turquoise heshi (beads), with a hand-made sterling silver clasp and cones. The carver of this object is unknown.
Frank Hamilton Cushing
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Frank Hamilton Cushing was an American anthropologist and ethnologist who made pioneering studies of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico by entering into their culture; his work helped establish participan
Zuni fetishes
…The primary non-Native source for academic information on Zuni fetishes is the Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology submitted in 1881 by Frank Hamilton Cushing and posthumously published as Zuni Fetishes in 1966, with several later reprints. Cushing reports that the Zuni divided the world into six regions or…
Frank Hamilton Cushing
Cushing at Zuni, c. 1881-82., by John K. Hillers