Katsina figure

Museum number:
2-72179
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
83 (previous number (donor's original number))
Accession number:
Acc.4765
Description:
Hon white bear katsina (kachina); carved and painted wooden figure. Wears a white case mask with bear snout; red-rimmed, black eyes; protruding, flat, round, red ears with shell decoration; with a yucca leaf and carved wooden feather dance wands on head. White fur ruff at neck. Body painted brown with a black disk with white dots on chest and back. Forearms and legs below knee painted black with white dots. Legs white from waist to knee. Wears armlets of fringed leather, wrist band of leather and fur with bear paws, a bandolier of leather and shells diagonally across chest, a shell pendant, a white breech clout with blue belt, black knee bands with tassels and fringed anklets over red boots. A.L. Sahmie, carver.
Donor:
Lorrie L. Greene and Richard L. Greene
Collection place:
Eastern Arizona
Verbatim coll. place:
North America, United States, Arizona, Hopi, Third Mesa
Culture or time period:
Hopi
Collector:
Lorrie L. Greene and Richard L. Greene
Materials:
Cottonwood root, Fur (hair material), Leather, Paint (coating), Shell (animal material), and Yucca leaf
Taxon:
Yucca
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Kachina dolls and Masks (costume)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
June 25, 2008
Context of use:
ceremonial or religious
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 31 centimeters, height 29 centimeters, width 12.5 centimeters, width 19 centimeters, length 14.5 centimeters, and depth 20 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Katsina figure, accession number 2-72179, described as Hon white bear katsina (kachina); carved and painted wooden figure. Wears a white case mask with bear snout; red-rimmed, black eyes; protruding, flat, round, red ears with shell decoration; with a yucca leaf and carved wooden feather dance wands on head. White fur ruff at neck. Body painted brown with a black disk with white dots on chest and back. Forearms and legs below knee painted black with white dots. Legs white from waist to knee. Wears armlets of fringed leather, wrist band of leather and fur with bear paws, a bandolier of leather and shells diagonally across chest, a shell pendant, a white breech clout with blue belt, black knee bands with tassels and fringed anklets over red boots. A.L. Sahmie, carver.

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