A tablita
corn-maiden is carved from a super cool fossil stone, orthoceras. This was a cephalopod that thrived in ancient waters. Kateri Quandelacy Sanchez set the orthoceras fossil just right to highlight an incised
corn body. In Zuni Pueblo tradition long ago, corn maidens saved the Zunis from famine and drought by nourishing them with sacred corn kernels from their bodies. An etched and darkened with jet paste face is from overlaid gold lip shell and a headdress called a "tablita" in beautifully etched with
cornstalks flanked by lovely
Dragonflies. About 4" tall, 2" wide and 5/8" deep.
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