Katsina figure

Museum number:

2-72137

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Alternate number:

2011-10-00484 (additional number, BETS inventory tracking) and 25 (previous number (donor's original number))

Accession number:

Acc.4765

Object count:

1

Description:

Koshare or Hano clown katsina (kachina); man with white face and black markings around mouth and under eyes; black hair; soft horns with black and white stripes and leather fringe tips. Body, arms, leg with horizontal black and white stripes. Medicine bag around neck. Black breech clout with cloud symbol. Red bandana as sash. One tennis shoe; one brown boot. Figure holding watermelon slice and cut watermelon. Figure spitting seeds. Three seeds on base. A.L. Sahmie, carver.

Donor:

Lorrie L. Greene and Richard L. Greene

Collection place:

Southwestern United States

Verbatim coll. place:

North America, United States, Arizona, Hopi-Tewa

Culture or time period:

Hopi

Collector:

Lorrie L. Greene and Richard L. Greene

Materials:

Leather and Wood (plant material)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Kachina dolls

Accession date:

June 25, 2008

Department:

Native US and Canada (except California)

Dimensions:

width 19 centimeters, depth 16 centimeters, height 41 centimeters, width 17 centimeters, and height 43 centimeters

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