Exterior.
Photograph by Addison Doty. Copyright 2010 School for Advanced Research.
Bowl | Dehaki sa'leh
Date: 1880-1890
Artist or Maker: Unknown
Dimensions:
7.6 × 17.8 cm (3 × 7 in.)
Weight: 0.6 kg (1.25 lb.)
Medium: clay | paints
Credit Line: Gift of Dean Kirk, 1936.
Place Made:
Zuni Pueblo, McKinley County, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
Object Number: IAF.2022
Not on view
Tribal Collection Review RemarksJim Enote and Octavius Seowtewa during collection review visit June 10 and 11, 2009 (Events Record “Collection Review: Zuni Tribe, Review 2”): This bowl is of the right size to be a dehaki sa'leh, which is a bowl that is used for an offering of food to the ancestors. Each individual at the table puts a portion of their meal in the bowl. When the bowl is full, it is taken to the river, where the contents are placed in the water as a way of feeding them to the ancestors. The offering can also be burned in the family’s house. It may also have been a salt bowl.
In Collection(s)
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