Katsina figure

Museum number:
2-9929
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.460
Description:
Flat, rectangular, simplified, buff white body with red stripes; painted arms in yellow, green, black; face green with black eyes, black, white, yellow markings; attached red ears and snout; string topknot (missing feathers?); string around neck. Hunter figure (description, not name). Made of wood.
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:
length 1.5 centimeters, length 8 centimeters, and width 17.5 centimeters
Comment:
References: Claude Sakyesva, 1960.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Katsina figure, accession number 2-9929, described as Flat, rectangular, simplified, buff white body with red stripes; painted arms in yellow, green, black; face green with black eyes, black, white, yellow markings; attached red ears and snout; string topknot (missing feathers?); string around neck. Hunter figure (description, not name). Made of wood.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Katsina figure, accession number 2-9929, described as Flat, rectangular, simplified, buff white body with red stripes; painted arms in yellow, green, black; face green with black eyes, black, white, yellow markings; attached red ears and snout; string topknot (missing feathers?); string around neck. Hunter figure (description, not name). Made of wood.

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