Katsina figure
- Museum number:
- 2-18735
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020018735
- Accession number:
- Acc.838
- Description:
- Mostly orange body, arms attached with nails; black face with bug eyes; attached wood snout; orange lips and ears; white stripe in center of face; white wood horns nailed to top of head, left tip broken; plant fibers, yellow and black feathers attached to head with string; kilt with black, pink designs; waistband of red and green yarn. Made of wood, woven fabric.
- Donor:
- Grace Blair DePue
- Collection place:
- Arizona
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Arizona
- Culture or time period:
- Hopi
- Collector:
- unknown
- Collection date:
- 1942
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Kachina dolls
- Function:
- 6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children
- Accession date:
- February 19, 1945
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- height 33.5 centimeters
- Comment:
- Wakati" ("Bull") fide Claude Sakyesva. Photo: 15-18610-11, 15-18625.
- Loans:
- S1962-1963 #35: Oakland Public Museum (January 30, 1963–March 29, 1963), S1972-1973 #58: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/William S. Simmons (February 7, 1973–February 7, 1973), 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)
- Legacy documentation:
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