Rectangular flat tile, with white slip. Design of three feather-like images within two triangular striped elements. Scalloped design at top and bottom borders. Made in a mold. CONDITION: Holes at top and bottom center.

This kachina has a textile snake wrapped around his neck and holds a wand in his proper right hand. His headress has two "ears" with sun forms painted on them. He wears the traditional dance skirt.

The name of this kachina is by Stewart Culin and may not be correct. This kachina has a corrugated fabric snake wrapped around his neck from front to back. He wears a fabric skirt painted with geometrics and tied with a sash. The shoes are made from hide, painted blue with reddish dark cuffs. He carries stick staffs in his hands, and wears leather fringed armbands around each arm and a fur cape. His chest and lower legs are painted red. His helmet style mask has a small, flat, painted head projecting like a horn on the proper right side. The ears of the mask are flat pieces with feathers sticking through as if earrings. There is a grid across the face of the mask with a zig zag line for a mouth. A black hair beard flows below the lower mask. Fur and feather remnants are across the top of the head.

Museum Expedition 1903, Museum Collection Fund

This is alLarge, full round body storage jar with shallow shoulder, short neck and wide mouth. Base is concave. Design is polychrome red and black on white. The body design has all-over pattern of alternating circles with tapered triangular points. The base and inside the neck are black. Some crackling of surface paint. Large crack along 2/3 of side from the rim. 1/2" chip and abrasion of design on outer rim.

Large drum jar with raptor wings motif around the edge. Goat skin would have been stretched across the top and it beaten with a drum hoop, a sapling curved and tied to form a hoop. Collector, Stewart Culin, noted that this drum was used when girls ground corn.

Rectangular flat tile, decorated with white slip. Design of double isoceles triangle in brown slip flanked by black C-shaped elements on either side. Black border and frame. Made with a mold. CONDITION: Crack which has been mended in center of tile. Holes in upper and lower center, a red ribbon threaded through the holes. Upper right and lower right corners are chipped.

This is a mudhead clown kachina with no wool neck collar and but does have a wool skirt. It is the far right kachina in the photograph.HAs deeply carved mouth and ears. Koyemshi Kachina (Mudhead) Clowns Koyemshi Kachinas, or Mudheads were created when the Zuni first entered the world. One brother and sister had improper relations so their ten children became Mudheads. Each Mudhead exhibits behavior opposite to what their name is. Thus “The Aged One” acts like a child, “The Invisible One,” thinks he is hiding if he only holds up a feather in front of his face, while the all-important “Speaker of the Sun” is really a witless daydreamer and rarely speaks. A troop of ten different Mudhead Kachinas appear in most Zuni ceremonies performing outrageous behaviors and interacting with the audience, making them laugh but also making people realize how wrong such behavior really is as the clowns are eventually chased away.

This blanket design is red, white and blue checks. The yarn is commercial sheep wool. On July 12, 1911 Newcombe purchased a blanket for twelve dollars from the wife of old Chief Billy Sepass of Skowkale. Its description -red,white and blue checks - matches this example. It was stored for many years in the Museum's Navajo blanket collection and was unlabeled. Culin states that the blanket from Necombe was made from goat hair, commonly used along with the hair of a specially bred white dog and sheeps wool. However this one is commercial sheep's wool.

Large storage jar with round, full body, narrow shoulder and short, wide neck. Base is concave. Design is polychrome red and black on white. Two flower medallions are on opposite sides of the body connected by a scroll, in reverse white on red, strip along the middle. There are curvilinear geometric designs above and below this median strip. The body and the neck are two separate design fields. 80% of the rim is broken off.