Body worn, pink front, tan back; attached arms; right forearm broken and replaced with rawhide(?); carved kilt; barefoot; yellow mask with eyes in black and red slit; painted flower ears; red snout, detached; string and feather topknot (shafts only); missing skin cape (?).
Donor:
Lucretia Blow Le Bourgeois Van Horn
Collection place:
Arizona
Verbatim coll. place:
Arizona
Culture or time period:
Hopi
Collector:
Family of Brig. Gen. R.O. Van Horn and Robert Osborn Van Horn
Collection date:
1941
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Kachina dolls and Masks (costume)
Function:
6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children
Accession date:
1941
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 28.5 centimeters
Comment:
Native name and meaning: Zuni warrior kachina. "Sipaik Nitaka" (fide Claude Sakyesva, 1960). "Sip-ikne" (fide H. Colton, 1959).