Katsina doll

Museum number:
2-9941
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.460
Description:
Carved cape with red and black striped designs; underneath black with white, red and black designs; face with black features, red markings; red attached wooden ears, right ear missing; feather and string topknot; string around neck. Similar in design, color, execution as 2-9941.
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)
Dimensions:
height 17.2 centimeters
Comment:
Haai Mana I Mana" (fide Claude Sakyesva, 1960).
Loans:
S1974-1975 #55: University of California, Santa Cruz (February 4, 1975–March 19, 1975)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Katsina doll, accession number 2-9941, described as Carved cape with red and black striped designs; underneath black with white, red and black designs; face with black features, red markings; red attached wooden ears, right ear missing; feather and string topknot; string around neck. Similar in design, color, execution as 2-9941.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Katsina doll, accession number 2-9941, described as Carved cape with red and black striped designs; underneath black with white, red and black designs; face with black features, red markings; red attached wooden ears, right ear missing; feather and string topknot; string around neck. Similar in design, color, execution as 2-9941.

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