Flat representation; white body with red stripes; painted arms in yellow, green, black; face and stepped headdress in yellow ochre, black, red, white, blue, olive-green; visor attached with plant fiber to front of headdress approximately 3 x 10 cm, red, black, green; feathers on headdress, some dyed turquoise, yellow, red. Made of wood.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Arizona
Verbatim coll. place:
Arizona
Culture or time period:
Hopi
Collector:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection date:
1913
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Kachina dolls
Function:
6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children
Accession date:
1913
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
11.5 centimeters and width 25 centimeters
Comment:
Hemes" Kachina (fide Claude Sakyesva, 1960).
Loans:
S1969-1970 #131: Dominican College of San Rafael/Sister M. Joanne (June 1, 1970–July 30, 1970), S1970-1971 #48: Newport Harbor Art Museum (February 22, 1971–July 8, 1971), S1982-1983 #35: California State University, Chico (April 5, 1983–July 26, 1984), S1987-1988 #44: SFO Museum (June 23, 1988–August 25, 1988), and S1987-1988 #45: Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History (April 29, 1988–July 13, 1988)