Carved cape with orange and black stripes; red and white markings on painted sash; blue, black, orange, yellow facial features; black painted hair; feather shaft attached with string and rawhide on head; detached headdress, lower section repaired with commercial thread, originally secured with wood dowels, string and rawhide, design in green, orange, blue, white, yellow, and black. Made of wood, nails.
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 32 centimeters and height 57 centimeters
Comment:
Polik Mana" Kachina (fide Claude Sakyesva, 1960).
Loans:
S1954-1955 #6: Margaret Irwin (January 24, 1955–unknown)