Kachina Doll

2021-4-48

From: United States of America | Arizona

Curatorial Section: American

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Native Name Kokopell' Mana
Object Number 2021-4-48
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Hopi
Provenience United States of America | Arizona
Culture Area Southwest Culture Area
Date Made 1970 - 1979 CE
Section American
Materials Wood | Paint | Felt
Description

Painted wooden figure is a Hopi Kokopelli mana or Maiden; it features a domed helmet in black and white, a white beak, white and black striped collar, and reddish-brown body covered in wispy white paint and bare feet. She wears a black Pueblo style manta dress with red and green painted decorations/belt, a tan cloak of felt with painted red and black line decorations, and a Hopi hair style of two hair worls made of rolled felt tied in the middle with string.

Height 24.4 cm
Length 12.2 cm
Width 9.6 cm
Credit Line Donated by Jan L. Bernstein, Esq., C79, in honor of Joan and James H. Bernstein, W52

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