RARE ZUNI (NORTHWEST NEW MEXICO) NATIVE AMERICAN EARLY 20TH CENTURY VINTAGE BEADED WOODEN GROUND PIGMENT POUCH, with HEMP CORD, BLUE WOOL TOPPER & LOOPED METAL LID PULL HOOK
[Found in the same Boston, Massachusetts estate as a Zuni Southwest United States tribal people, Native American beaded doll carrying a ceramic pot on its head]
(Circa 1920-1940)
Early 20th century Zuni tribal people Native American vintage beaded leather, small wooden bottles for holding ground pigment, used to dye fabric
DIMENSIONS:
3 1⁄4" Height x 2 3⁄4" Height (without stopper)
x 1 1⁄2" Width (bottom)
Weight: 1.2 oz.
DESCRIPTION:
Offered for your review and consideration is this very scarce, early to mid 20th century, vintage Southwest United States Native American cultural artifact, most likely made by the Zuni tribal people, hand beaded and hand carved wooden small ground pigment bottle, with fluted top and hemp, blue wool dyed fiber and metal ring topper. There's still some faint blue dust residue around the wooden lid opening, indicating blue azure pigment was once stored inside, used to dye fabrics in the wonderfully intense blues often seen in Zuni tribal clothing. The glass beads are both opaque as well as semi transparent and are tied to the bottle with thin hemp cord and stacked in graduated rings around the wooden vessel, circumnavigating the entire form. The bottom of the wooden flask or bottle is bare and not covered with beads. The decorated topper no longer has a hemp cord tied to the metal looped wire lid pull. The wooden flask doesn't suffer from any fractures. There's a small flea-bite or missing chip of wood on the fluted rim. The beaded wooden flask has a round wood bottom and therefore doesn't stand upright on its own. It was meant to be hung around the user's neck or up on a wall peg. Exceedingly scarce. Very fine.
CONDITION:
Good to Very Good overall vintage condition.