Sotuqnang-u - Heart of the Sky God. This is a deity vice a kachina. This version is presented as a female, with typical facial markings and extended, red, flat ears, but wearing a female dress and cloak, white boots and with white woman's hair styled in the traditional Hopi way. 1980s.
Donor:
Elizabeth Colson
Collection place:
Arizona
Culture or time period:
Hopi
Collector:
Elizabeth Colson
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Kachina dolls
Function:
6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children
Accession date:
September 9, 2011
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 12 centimeters, length 6.2 centimeters, and height 23.5 centimeters