Katsina figure

Museum number:

2-64976

Permalink:

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Accession number:

Acc.3532

Object count:

1

Description:

Made of cottonwood root, carved and painted with poster paint: pink, red, blue, yellow, black and white; tube mouth with inverted "V" over mouth.

Donor:

Joan M. Oldfather

Collection place:

Second Mesa, Hopi Reservation, Navajo County

Verbatim coll. place:

Arizona; Hopi Reservation; Second Mesa

Culture or time period:

Hopi

Collector:

Joan M. Oldfather

Collection date:

1900-1980

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Kachina dolls

Function:

6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children

Accession date:

May 21, 1980

Context of use:

Made for tourist market.

Department:

Native US and Canada (except California)

Dimensions:

height 12.5 centimeters

Comment:

Native name and meaning: "Naven KATSINA" (velvet shirted dancer). References: Colton, Harold S. "Hopi Kachina Dolls", 1959, p. 60.

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