Zuni Reservation, Mckinley County, New Mexico, United States, North America
Accession Date:
11 Feb 1889
Collection Date:
1887
Notes:
From card: "DECORATED. MODERN. ANIMAL AS HANDLE." Jug is signed on horse handle: "made 1884, Ma-Mal".
Identified by Dwight Lanmon, 2007, as a Zuni Polychrome horse-handled jug. Maker attributed by Lanmon to be We'wha, and Lanmon says signature on handle is probably by We'wha. References: p. 90, 95 and 97 in "We'wha: A Zuni Man-Woman and His Pottery", by Dwight P. Lanmon; The Walpole Society Notebook, 2003-2004; Printed for the Society: 2006; pp. 522-5 in Lanmon, Dwight P., and Francis Harvey Harlow. 2008. The pottery of Zuni Pueblo. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press.
