Tan body; shoulders and forearms blue, yellow; carved kilt; painted sash; attached wood "pop" eyes, black, and long wood snout, black, red, white; mostly broken feathers around face; string around neck.
Donor:
George M. Foster, Helen Cowles LeCron, James Defrees LeCron, Mary LeCron Foster, and Mrs. Eugene E. Jurs
Collection place:
Arizona
Verbatim coll. place:
Arizona
Culture or time period:
Hopi
Collector:
Helen Cowles LeCron and James Defrees LeCron
Collection date:
1963
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Kachina dolls
Function:
6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children
Accession date:
1963
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 16.5 centimeters
Comment:
Somewhat similar to wupamo (wupomo) (long snout). References: see "The Kachina and the White Man", F.J. Dockstader, 1954, p. 62.
Loans:
S1966-1967 #44: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (November 16, 1966–November 16, 1966) and S1982-1983 #35: California State University, Chico (April 5, 1983–July 26, 1984)