Crouching figure; black and yellow body, white carved kilt, sash with designs in red, green, black, white; eagle wings; carved platform on back; carved tailfeathers, black and white; carved "tail"; ruff, green, around neck; black features with carved beak; green headband; attached red wood ears, feathers on head; plant fiber across chest. Made of wood. Sash and tail attached separately, but made to look like carved from one piece of wood.
Donor:
Frederick Neyron
Collection place:
Oraibi, Third Mesa, Hopi Reservation
Verbatim coll. place:
Arizona; Hopi Reservation; Oraibi
Culture or time period:
Hopi
Maker or artist:
Frederick Neyron
Collector:
Heard Museum
Collection date:
1959
Taxon:
Accipitridae
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Kachina dolls
Function:
6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children
Accession date:
1959
Context of use:
Eagle kachina; possibly not true kachina doll because of posture, but probably merely newer style.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 28 centimeters
Loans:
S1964-1965 #23: Science Center (Diablo Valley College) (October 30, 1964–January 14, 1965), S1968-1969 #43: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (November 7, 1968–November 7, 1968), S1976-1977 #44: Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (February 1, 1977–February 2, 1977), and S1982-1983 #35: California State University, Chico (April 5, 1983–July 26, 1984)