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Zuni Pueblo Polychrome Historic Dough Bowl - C3783C
It would be interesting to share with you a little about the history involving Zuni Pueblo before giving details about this dough bowl. The Bureau of Ethnology (BAE) was created by an act of Congress in 1879 and put under the control of the Smithsonian Institution, with John Wesley Powell as its first director. He wasted no time in setting up his plans for the BAE. Within a few months, he sent an expedition to visit Zuni Pueblo to collect material from and information about the Zuni culture.
Colonel James Stevenson and his wife, Matilda Coxe Stevenson, departed for Zuni on August 1, 1879 also to collect for the BAE. John K. Hillers, photographer, and Frank Hamilton Cushing, ethnology assistant at the Smithsonian, accompanied the Stevensons.