Butterfly Maiden

2021-4-30

From: United States of America | Arizona

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Title Butterfly Maiden
Native Name Poli Taka
Object Number 2021-4-30
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Hopi
Provenience United States of America | Arizona
Culture Area Southwest Culture Area
Date Made 1960 -1969 CE
Section American
Materials Wood | Paint | Yarn | Feather
Description

Wooden insect kachina figure identified as butterfly man, dancing and wearing elaborate headdress with painted details in teal, red, yellow/tan, black and white. The figure has long black hair bunched together in front across proper left (PL) shoulder. He wears a colorful tablita headpiece that fans out from his head at the center, dance kilt, belt and embroidered sash, fox pelt at back. He holds a floral sceptor in his proper left hand and a gourd dance rattle in the proper right. There are feathers on the back of the head. Fur and feathers also sprout from the sides of the panel he wears on the back. He has felt, yarn, and leather adornments at wrists, legs, kilt, and body.

Height 39.5 cm
Length 17.9 cm
Width 21.7 cm
Credit Line Donated by Jan L. Bernstein, Esq., C79, in honor of Joan and James H. Bernstein, W52

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