Katsina doll

Museum number:
2-18734
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.838
Description:
Simplified body with red stripes, black lines; face with black, red, green, yellow (?) features and markings; black painted hair; tableta headdress of several sections, painted red, white, black. Made of wood, string and plant fiber.
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 25.5 centimeters and height 43 centimeters
Comment:
Polik Mana" fide Claude Sakyesva.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Katsina doll, accession number 2-18734, described as Simplified body with red stripes, black lines; face with black, red, green, yellow (?) features and markings; black painted hair; tableta headdress of several sections, painted red, white, black. Made of wood, string and plant fiber.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Katsina doll, accession number 2-18734, described as Simplified body with red stripes, black lines; face with black, red, green, yellow (?) features and markings; black painted hair; tableta headdress of several sections, painted red, white, black. Made of wood, string and plant fiber.

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