prayer-meal-bowl

Updated: July 1, 2025

Thus, upon all sacred vessels, from the drums of the esoteric medicine societies of the priesthood and all vases pertaining to them to the keramic appurtenances of the sacred dance or Kâ´ kâ, all decorations were intentionally emblematic. Of this numerous class of vessels, I will choose but one for illustration the prayer-meal-bowl of the Kâ´ kâ.

Frank Hamilton Cushing - A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth. : Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 467-522