Butterfly Maiden
2021-4-30
From: United States of America | Arizona
Curatorial Section: American
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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