Coiled. Black, yellow, red, brown, and cream. Butterfly Maiden Kachina design. Headdress has stepped element on either side in brown with black band; 3 pairs of terraced elements alternating yellow and brown, banded in black. Directly underneath headdress on either side of trunk are brown scalloped triangles with cream bands dividing squares which make up triangle; trunk is made of two strips of yellow/brown each banded in black. Dress is cream and black checkerboard... (continued in Comments)
Donor:
Burton Benedict
Collection place:
Second Mesa, Hopi Reservation, Navajo County
Verbatim coll. place:
Arizona; Hopi Reservation; Second Mesa
Culture or time period:
Hopi
Collector:
Burton Benedict
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basket plaques, Coiled weaving, and Plaques (flat objects)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
33.9 centimeters and height 5 centimeters
Comment:
...Additional chain of cream colored fibers sewn into base of headdress. Plaque slopes upward towards rim in relatively narrow coils. Hanging loop is barely attached at one end and still securely sewn into rim coil at other end. Made of yucca.