Orange Alabaster Long Necked Bear w/Multi Stone Heartline Zuni Fetish Beadwork Beautiful Maiden with side braid

Beautiful Maiden with side braid and full skirt holds two babies in her lap  (one wrapped as a papoose) while she passes down the traditions and tales of her culture

Medium: Picasso Marble with turquoise eyes and pinshell nose /coral mouth/tongue/  Turquoise appointments on bandana at back/ Holding a Mother of Pearl donut

The Corn Maidens are highly revered in the Zuni villages for having driven off the witches that came to steal their sacred corn

Leadership/ resourcefulness

unbleached and dyed Yucca strips

Orange Alabaster Long Necked Bear w/Multi Stone Heartline Zuni Fetish Beadwork Beautiful Maiden with side braidArtist: Zuni Fetish carver Priscilla Lasiloo Quandelacy (Stewart's wife) Medium: Highly polished Orange Alabaster with jet eyes and multi stone heartline (turquoise, jet and coral) Size: 2" L x 7 8" H x 3 8" W Strength and power! Priscilla' trademark carving