Fetish turtle of turquoise and brown stone

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Object Number 2011.12.239

Display Title Fetish turtle of turquoise and brown stone

Descriptions

Inventory Description Fetish, turtle, turquoise and brown stone

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Yaqui

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Central America / Mexico / Sonora

Materials Turquoise

Dimensions Other: 3.8 x 10.6 x 14.4 cm (1 1/2 x 4 3/16 x 5 11/16 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 2011.12.239

Credit Line Gift of The Ward Family

Provenance

Collector Oscar Branson

Collector Irma Bailey (-2003)

Owner Jeffrey Ward (2003-2011)

Donor Donated by Jeffrey Ward

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2011.12.199	Fetish grackle, tan and brown stone with turquoise eyes		Zuni
2011.12.272	Fetish badger of black and brown stone with turquoise eyes		Zuni
2011.12.18	Fetish, Bear?; brown sandstone hunting fetish with red glass bead eyes; white shell heishi, turquoise and red coral girth with white arrow head		Zuni
2011.12.16	Fetish bear?; brown sandstone hunting fetish with red glass bead eyes; white shell, turquoise and red coral girth with arrow head		Zuni
2011.12.310.4	Pair of black stone fetish bears with turquoise eyes, bound with sinew and 3 turquoise beads	Fetish	Zuni
2011.12.191	Fetish frog, turquoise with brown matrix, white shell eyes		Zuni
2011.12.17	Fetish, Mountain Lion; brown sandstone hunting fetish; painted black ears, mouth and tail tip; red coral heishi eyes; arrow head with white shell, heishi and turquoise bead		Zuni
2011.12.310	Fetish pot encrusted with crushed turquoise; 8 carved stone fetishes affixed with leather ties through pre-made holes in clay	Pot	Zuni

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