Basketry. Colors brown, yellow, black on cream ground. Design element is a full figure kachina, face centered on plaque. Head dressing is geometric pattern, brown unit, two units brown, cream separator, yellow, followed by a yellow unit. Upper body is yellow, brown and black, lower body checkerboard black and cream. Hanging device. Rim finished. Grass bundle foundation, sewn with split yucca fibers; coiled.
Donor:
Grace Blair DePue
Collection place:
Second Mesa, Hopi Reservation, Navajo County
Verbatim coll. place:
Arizona; Hopi Reservation; Second Mesa
Culture or time period:
Hopi
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
1900-1944
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Basket plaques, Coiled weaving, and Plaques (flat objects)
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
February 19, 1945
Context of use:
Hanging wall decoration; meal basket.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
diameter 32 centimeters and height 2.5 centimeters