Worn pink body; breechcloth and sash from black stockings; carved knapsack with pink, yellow, black designs; face with carved protruding features, black markings; 3 wood balls on head with string; feather on center ball, missing from others; 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
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 23.5 centimeters
Comment:
Native name and meaning: "Mud-head" - "Koyemsi" kachina (fide Claude Sakyesva, 1960). Photo: 15-5648; slide 2479.
Loans:
S1966-1967 #44: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley) (November 16, 1966–November 16, 1966)