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Tsineha Tsanahe (Tsiniha), A:shiwi (Zuni) / American, 20th century
A:shiwi (Zuni)
Zuni Pueblo (Halona-Wah)
Southwest
collected December 1903
Terracotta and pigment
Overall: 6 7/8 × 5 1/2 in. (17.5 × 14 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.10097
Geography
Place Made: Zuni Pueblo, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Pottery
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Southwest
Not on view
Inscriptions
Marks: "ZUNI F.C.C. DEC. '03" - done at time of manufacture on the base.
Publication History
[Tamara Northern], "Native American Art". Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, page 42. (Published in conjunction with Gutman Gallery opening exhibition)
Beth Michelle Schrift, Pueblo Pottery of the Churchill Collection at the Turn of the Century: A Representation of Changing Times, 2004, pp. 1-102, ill. p. 65, fig. 25.
Provenance
Tsineha Sinehay, Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico; made for Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, December 1903; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.
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