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THBAN EARLY HOPI POLYCHROME WOOD KACHINA DOLL
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2229 Lincoln Street
Cedar Falls, IA 50613
United States
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LiveApr 24, 2018 - Apr 26, 2018
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- Lot Description
AN IMPORTANT EARLY HOPI POLYCHROME WOOD KACHINA DOLL, DEPICTING A SHALAKO MANA, CIRCA 1900. Traditionally depicted wearing a white manta across her shoulders and a case mask, with hatched rainbow on the chin, red circles on cheeks, rectangular eyes set wide apart and overhanging brow line, surmounted by an elaborate openwork tablita, carved and painted with raincloud motifs, held together with wood peg and cotton string. Greatest height 14.75 inches (37.5 cm). Greatest width 13 inches (33 cm). The tablita unassembled and not attached to body, but complete.
Provenance:
Sold on behalf of the Washington, Iowa Public Library to whom the offered lot along with a collection of other similar Native American items offered on this auction was donated in 1964 to the library by Mrs. Emily Powis Simpson-Atmore (1882-1968).
It is believed that the offered lot as well as the others consigned by the library to this auction came into the possession of Mrs. Simpson-Atmore through her association and wide ranging travels of her husband the Rev. William Smith Simpson-Atmore (1863-1943). William Smith Simpson-Atmore was born in Cape Town, South Africa on July 5, 1863, and was raised and educated in Hingham, Norfolk, England. In 1884, at the age of 21, he moved to United States where he attended Seminary at The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. In June of 1888, he was ordained an Episcopalian priest by Bishop Edwin Gardner Weed (1846-1924). In May of 1889, he married Anne Howze Milton (1859-1920), the daughter of former Florida Governor John Milton (1807-1865). In 1920, Rev. Simpson-Atmore's wife, Anne, died. Two years later, he remarried British native, Emily Powis Cotton, who donated the offered lot and others to the Washington, Iowa Public Library in 1964.
Rev. William Smith-Atmore traveled widely and was pastor, rector, superintendent and warden at a variety of Episcopal Churches and institutions in the United States including: Church of the Good Shepherd Jacksonville, Florida, 1890-1898, St. Lukes, Kearney, Nebraska, circa 1899-1900, Trinity Episcopal Church, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1911-1921, and Helen Dunlap Memorial School For Mountain Girls (Warden), Winslow, Arkansas, circa 1922-1938. Simpson-Atmore was also, at one time, the U.S. Episcopalian Secretary for the Propagation of the Gospels in the United States. Furthermore, his ordaining bishop (Edwin Weed) was known as the missionary bishop; as over 77 missions were founded during his episcopate. Little is known about his whereabouts during the period of 1900-1910, roughly the period in which the donated artifacts would all seem to date. A group of 11 albumen print photographs (lot #21 in this sale) would seem to date to this time period as well and depict various scenes of the Arizona Territory with period inscriptions on verso. One of the photos, which is inscribed as "Apache woman in front of Trading Post-Whiteriver Agency, Arizona", also depicts a white man in attire typical (hat and bow tie) of a gentleman circa 1900. Based on a known photograph of Rev. William Smith Simpson-Atmore, it is plausible that the figure depicted is him. It is not difficult to presume then that with his background as Secretary for the Propagation of the Gospels and the missionary zeal of the day that Rev. Simpson-Atmore would have been drawn to the missionary territory of Arizona (and his wife to the dryer warmer climate). As such, it would seem likely these items were acquired by him while traveling there at that time.
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