Zuni Fetishes [Facsimile Edition] SOLD

Fetishes are carvings believed to have a spirit within them, which can help the current owner if they are used properly and respectfully. They may be used for hunting, the diagnosis and cure of disease, initiations, warfare, gambling, propagation, spells, and good luck and usually assume the shape of an animal.

The text by Frank Hamilton Cushing is reproduced from the Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology as submitted to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81 by J.W. Powell, Director. The original volume was printed in 1883 by the Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.