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Tesuque rain gods, neither idols nor gods, were the answer and the merchants purchased them by the hundreds and thousands from the potters at Tesuque Pueblo.  They were exotic and believed to be representations of idols or gods by the tourists.  It is most likely that they were modeled after pre-Columbian Mexican figures of that nation's tribes.  Early ones, circa 1880s, were generally made with fully exposed genitalia but later ones were made with a jar on the lap.

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