Paint palette with snake design
Usage Conditions Apply
- Culture/People
- probably Hohokam Tradition (archaeological culture) (attributed)
- MAI agent
- Dr. Jesse Walter Fewkes (J. Walter Fewkes), Non-Indian, 1850-1930
- Object Name
- Paint palette with snake design
- Media/Materials
- Tone/Mineral/Rock: Schist
- Techniques
- Pecked, ground, incised
- Dimensions
- 12 x 6 cm
- Object Type
- Art and Printing tools
- Place
- North side of the Gila River, 6 miles from Florence; Florence; Pinal County; Arizona; USA
- Date created
- AD 400–1200 (Pre-Classic to Classic period)
- Collection History
- Said to have been plowed up by a farmer at an unknown date; purchased by MAI from an unknown party circa 1917 through Dr. Jesse Walter Fewkes (1850-1930, an anthropologist with the U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology).
- Catalog Number
- 6/7324
- Barcode
- 067324.000
- See related items
- Hohokam Tradition (archaeological culture)
- Art and Printing tools
- On View
- NMAI, New York, NY: Infinity of Nations, Southwest
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Contact Us
- Have a concern, a correction, or something to add? Contact us: https://nmai.si.edu/collections-statement