Katsina doll

Museum number:
2-9931
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.460
Description:
Carved cape with black and light blue designs and an orange, lavender, and blue-green "medallion" on lower back; face with black and blue features; triangular wood wings on head painted blue; red and blue yarn headband; missing red yarn topknot; cloth strip with red pattern around neck; corner of left wing broken and repaired with plant fiber (as 2-9927). "The one with crow tied on". 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)
Comment:
Anwus Mana" (fide Claude Sakyesva, 1960). "Angwusnasontaqa" (fide H. Colton, 1959). Photo: 15-5648 slide 2479.
Loans:
S1972-1973 #58: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/William S. Simmons (February 7, 1973–February 7, 1973)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Katsina doll, accession number 2-9931, described as Carved cape with black and light blue designs and an orange, lavender, and blue-green "medallion" on lower back; face with black and blue features; triangular wood wings on head painted blue; red and blue yarn headband; missing red yarn topknot; cloth strip with red pattern around neck; corner of left wing broken and repaired with plant fiber (as 2-9927). "The one with crow tied on". Made of wood, commercial fabric.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Katsina doll, accession number 2-9931, described as Carved cape with black and light blue designs and an orange, lavender, and blue-green "medallion" on lower back; face with black and blue features; triangular wood wings on head painted blue; red and blue yarn headband; missing red yarn topknot; cloth strip with red pattern around neck; corner of left wing broken and repaired with plant fiber (as 2-9927). "The one with crow tied on". Made of wood, commercial fabric.

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