Corn Maiden Sisters

Corn Maidens represent everything good about being a woman. These Corn Maiden Sisters were carved from shimmery mother of pearl by Gloria Chattin.  Engraved on her shawl are geometric designs, dragonflies, and corn stalks. She stands on crushed turquoise which represents water and an offering and a stone base. The inlaid stones on her body are coral, turquoise, opal, apatite, and lapis. More about corn maidens below.

Size: 2.25" H x 1" W 

Corn maidens represent everything good about being a woman: strong, kind, compassionate, nurturing, and powerful.  There are many Indigenous stories about how corn was brought to the people at a time when there was hunger, and how a sacred, sometimes other worldly, female being brought them corn.  Corn maidens come with a card detailing the meaning, the carver, and the material they are carved from.

Traditionally, Zuni carvings are symbolically fed cornmeal.   Each Zuni fetish comes in a box with a descriptive card and a tiny bit of corn meal to tide them over until they reach you.