Basketry. Colors red, green, blue, yellow, black, and cream ground. Design is full figure Kachina, head centered with headdress covering upper half of plaque in all colors above; upper torso of black, blue, red and cream, banded in black; lower body cream and black. Hanging device present. Coiled bundle foundation sewn with split yucca fibers; dye. Rim is damaged in one place.
Donor:
Frederick J. Moller
Collection place:
Second Mesa, Hopi Reservation, Navajo County
Verbatim coll. place:
Arizona; Hopi Reservation; Second Mesa
Culture or time period:
Hopi
Collector:
Annie Moller
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basket plaques, Coiled weaving, and Plaques (flat objects)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1932
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
diameter 39 centimeters and height 3.5 centimeters