BM: Arts of the Americas (Bot)

Effigy Jar

Effigy Jar https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/39383

Parrot Mortar

Parrot Mortar https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/51476

This Kachina has a red painted chest. His mask is helmet style, blue, with black slit eyes and a pointed snout nose. The PR side has a feather attached, the PL side a paper cone. He wears a painted cloth skirt, yarn ties around wrists and calves. He is missing feet. The back of the helmet style mask has a multi-colored dragon fly design and the back of his chest has a painted, narrow, yellow V stripe.

Kachina Doll (Muluk Takja) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/18536

Large, beaded floral pattern on white beaded background on the body and band of this bag. The band is wide with a maple leaf pattern on it. The body continues the maple leaf motif with the addition of flowers and a three leafed plant. The bottom edge of bag has 11 loom beaded squares dangling from the edge in beaded in geometric patterns with yarn tassles hanging from them.

Fringed Bandolier with Floral Design https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/55516

Woman's silver head ornament or trarilonco. It has twenty flat plate links with twenty-one coin-shaped danglers with incised designs, twenty possibly of cactus plants and one of a sunburst. A silver clasp at one end slips into a hole at the other end. The ornament can also be worn as a necklace. Condition: good; some surface wear from use.

Woman's Head Ornament (Trarilonco) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/170038

Walrus lying on side with one flipper in the air. Eyes drilled. Condition fair. Small fragments of tusks remain, but major forms missing.

Walrus with Tusks Missing https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/168070

Coca Bag

Coca Bag https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/65181

Corrugated Coiledware Pot

Corrugated Coiledware Pot https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/131062

Awl for Splitting Pine Root

Awl for Splitting Pine Root https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/132956

Poncho

Poncho https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/48170

Basket Material

Basket Material https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/132967

Calavera "Clerical"

Calavera "Clerical" https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/90007

Breeches from Man's Festival Costume

Breeches from Man's Festival Costume https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/154716

Rim of Pot with Female Head and Bust

Rim of Pot with Female Head and Bust https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/49629

Sculpture of Male Deity

Sculpture of Male Deity https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/61018

Mudhead kachina doll with 4 knobs on head, protruding eyes and mouth. Dressed in a black cloth dress tied around the waist with string and a black scarf around the neck also tied together with string. The arms are carved separately and attached with nails. The body is painted in purple-brown paint. Condition: Good. Nail holes in the bottom of the feet, probably from a previous mount.

Kachina Doll (Elsa-pa-sha [Mudhead Clown]) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/16416

Seven dice in total: 5 round bone pieces and 2 falcon-shaped bone pieces. They are pictured in "Objects of Myth and Memory." Each die has a component of 11.694.9000.1a-g painted on it, e.g. 11.694.9000.1a.

Die, from a Set of 7 Dice https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/166642

Bowl (Tetsa)

Bowl (Tetsa) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/128586

Acorn Soup Basket

Acorn Soup Basket https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/132999

A seated female figure with her hands on her waist and a large head, open at the top. There are openings for her eyes and mouth and holes in her ears for ornaments. Her legs short and bulbous, and her breasts are flat. Small holes under arms and inside legs and navel are for the escape of air during firing. The figure is painted with a red, black, and white slip and a pattern of wavy black lines appears on the torso; a black lozenge pattern decorates the chin and neck area. Condition: the right leg has been repaired, as well as the head which was broken off and replaced. One of a pair of ancestral figures (mate is 69.132.2). Pairs of figures, such as these Zacatecas examples, have been found as sets, in shaft-and-chamber tombs, along with other offerings to the dead.

Seated Female Figure https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/1448

Belt

Belt https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/155421

Female Figurine

Female Figurine https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/39506

Whistle

Whistle https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/39481

Two fragments from a Paracas mantle woven in red and brown with skeletal human figures holding fans or tumi knives. Larger fragment with face is "a"; smaller fragment with full figure is "b".

Textile Fragment with Skeletal Figure https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/37098

Coiled Jar

Coiled Jar https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/134597

Textile Fragment, Unascertainable or Mantle, Fragment

Textile Fragment, Unascertainable or Mantle, Fragment https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/92618

Knife

Knife https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/133064

Effigy Jar

Effigy Jar https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/41070

Camelid Conopa

Camelid Conopa https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/46653

This double pipe bowl has a wonderfully carved foliate design on one of the bowls and the ridged decorative projection. It would have had stem(s) inserted into it when smoking, probably wooden.

Double Pipe Bowl with etched floral designs https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/55741