Painted bands on body; painted white necklace; wood disk tied with string between hands; face with black features, orange markings; black painted hair; attached orange ears, left missing; feather topknot; string around neck. Made of wood, commercial fabric.
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
Context of use:
Female blanket dancer (fide J. Haveman, 1962).
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 14 centimeters
Comment:
Haai i mana" (fide Claude Sakyesva, 1960). "Hahai-i wu-uti" (fide H. Colton, 1959).
Loans:
S1974-1975 #55: University of California, Santa Cruz (February 4, 1975–March 19, 1975) and S1985-1986 #31: The Crafts Museum, New Delhi, India (March 8, 1986–August 4, 1986)