Axe head (Image withheld, pending review)
- Date created
- AD 1250–1650 (Pueblo III to Post-contact period)
- Culture/People
- possibly A:shiwi (Zuni) (archaeological) (attributed)
- Previous owner
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
- Expedition
- Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition, 1886-1894
- Expedition leader
- Frank Hamilton Cushing, Non-Indian, 1857-1900
- Collection History
- Excavated in 1888 or 1889 by members of the Hemenway Southwestern Expedition, led by anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing (1857-1900); part of the collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, until 1905 when it was acquired by George Heye through an exchange with the Peabody Museum.
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- Place
- Halona:wa (Old Zuni Pueblo); Zuni Pueblo, Zuni Reservation; McKinley County; New Mexico; USA
- See related items
- A:shiwi (Zuni) (archaeological)
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 6225
- Barcode
- 006225.000
- Object Type
- Tools and Equipment (General)
- Object Name
- Axe head (Image withheld, pending review)
- Media/Materials
- Stone
- Techniques
- Ground, grooved
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- NMAI_6618