Kachina Doll

2021-4-53

From: United States of America | Arizona

Curatorial Section: American

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Native Name Tsakwyna Mana
Object Number 2021-4-53
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
Description

The object is identified as a Hopi cloud, Tsakwyna Mana. The Kachina is carved painted wood with black face, skin, and hair, bright yellow eyes and mouth of painted leather, and painted turquoise earnings and necklace. She wears a black Pueblo style manta dress, an embroidered sash around her waist, a white cotton shoulder blanket with borders of red and black, and bare feet. A hole present in each hand suggests she once held items in her hands now missing. (In a separate bag is a wooden crook painted white.)A string for hanging is attached to the upper back.

Paint colors: white, black, red, blue, green, brown, turquoise.

Height 22.86 cm
Length 7.62 cm
Width 10.16 cm
Credit Line Donated by Jan L. Bernstein, Esq., C79, in honor of Joan and James H. Bernstein, W52

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