Katsina figure
- Museum number:
- 2-59547
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020059547
- Accession number:
- Acc.3239
- Description:
- Black rectangular eyes with orange tube mouth and orange ears; lozenges under eyes. Orange/white body (much orange lost). Painted kilt, sash, green moccasins. Carved cottonwood root. Feathers attached to head.
- Donor:
- Machinery Credit Corporation
- Collection place:
- Arizona
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Arizona
- Culture or time period:
- Hopi
- Collector:
- Ralph K. Davies
- Collection date:
- Before 1971
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Kachina dolls
- Function:
- 6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children
- Context of use:
- Seen at night dance in Hotevilla in 1943"; possibly Peeping Out Man (fide H. Colton, 1959). Used in educating children.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- height 21 centimeters
- Comment:
- Native name and meaning: Peeping Out Man "Na-Uikuitaqa". References: Colton, Harold S., 1959, "Hopi Kachina Dolls", University of New Mexico Press; #132.
- Loans:
- S1982-1983 #35: California State University, Chico (April 5, 1983–July 26, 1984)