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THBVintage Native American Hopi Wood & Feather Kachina
Lot 52c
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Featuring historical examples from the American, Spanish, and Mexican frontiers, as well as Native American, Ethnographic, Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, more. All items offered for sale have been legally acquired, are legal to sell and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Native American, Southwest, Hopi or Navajo, ca. mid 20th century CE. A hand-carved and hand-painted wooden katsina/kachina in the form of a horned figure, with a polychrome visage; adorned with feathers, fur, and a cloth. The cylindrical head is made from a stiff hide and features white, russet, and black painted details, bulging eyes, and a long, rounded snout. The bird feathers atop the head are blue and red, perhaps from a western bluebird. Around his neck is a furry beard, likely bison hair, that hangs over his broad yellow torso. The arms articulate and are riveted to the shoulders. Below is a fabric skirt attached with a green ribbon and a strip of cloth painted with geometric shapes. Orange leather cuffs complete this figure. Kachina figures are meant as gifts for children representing kachina dancers and the supernatural katsinam beings they embody. Size: 4.25" W x 13" H (10.8 cm x 33 cm)
Plaza Dances may be either Mixed Katsina Dances (Soyohim) in which dancers representing all the different types of katsinas attend, or a dance that includes only katsinas of the same type. Regardless, in addition to bringing about rain and fertility, all katsinas have a distinct purpose. Dances may be performed to commemorate a special event such as recovery from an illness, the welcomed return of a son from the army, or a birthday. Nevertheless, these dances maintain a religion quality for the Hopis.
The Katsinam, supernatural beings who live in the high mountains of the San Francisco Peaks above traditional Hopi territory, speak to the Hopi through costumed dance and song. These dancers emerge from the round ceremonial kivas that are at the center of their communities, singly or in groups, and dance to the music of drums, rattles, and song. In imitation and representation of them are Katsina figures (katsina dolls, katsin-tihu), made of cottonwood root. Cottonwood is culturally symbolic because the cottonwood tree, once abundant in traditional Hopi lands, grows where water flows - thus, looking across a landscape, lines of cottonwood trees denote a water source in the desert. After carving, the figures are painted all over with whitewash, made from kaolin clay, and then painted in brilliant colors. Originally these were done using yucca brushes. Many of them are then decorated with other materials, like feathers, cloth, or fur. Katsina dolls are often given objects to hold which indicate their role
Provenance: private Glorieta, New Mexico, USA collection
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#161951Losses and fraying to fur and feathers. Surface abrasions and chips to high-pointed areas. Inactive insect holes on torso. Fading of pigments and staining to cloth. Arms and head still articulate.Condition
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