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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Art & Architecture Thesaurus\OBJECTS FACET\Settlements and Landscapes\landscapes (environments)\natural landscapes\landforms and landform components\landforms\landforms by shape or position\landforms by shape or position: upward\

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Woman walking at Zuni carrying a pot on her head, late 19th century - early 20th century

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.258.51
Description

Woman in the lower center of the image, walking while holding a pot on her head. Buildings in background with fenced-in areas in foreground. Photo attached to black album page with TU2009.39.258.52 on reverse. Handwritten below image, "Corrals at Zuni."



Inscription(s)

Inscribed, "Corrals at Zuni" in lower left on recto

Dates: late 19th century - early 20th century

"Zuni Baking Day", early 20th century

 Item — Folder 437: [Barcode: 127.437]
Identifier: 5327.534
Description Folder 437 Transcript (DCI) [single page document typed on lined note paper]ZUNI BAKING DAYThe Zuni maiden bakes excellent bread in her oven. We call it a Dutch oven, but the Zunis have had this type of oven [illegible - 2 words crossed out] as far back as the white man’s knowledge of them goes. Her costume is her adaptation from the whites. The peton hanging down her back is purely ornamental. The buckskin wrappings...
Dates: early 20th century