Cooking vessel
Item
- Title
- Cooking vessel
- Tribe
- Zuni
- Location
- New Mexico
- Dimensions
- 3 3/4 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches 9.5 x 14 x 14 cm
- Accession Number
- NAP-08
- Description
- This bowl is a rough ware style of pottery, made of a clay called Kuhn-kat-say. The spikes may have been used to represent the seedpods of Datura, a poisonous plant native to the Southwest. When administered in small doses, the plant causes hallucinations, perhaps purposely brought on for religious purposes.
- Media
- Ceramic
- Item sets
- Sunnergren
- Media
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