Lot 57
57
A HOPI COTTONWOOD KACHINA DOLL

Details
A HOPI COTTONWOOD KACHINA DOLL
Wearing white kilt, red, mustard and black geometric patterning which extends down around the border, body painted red, wearing boots, articulated arms with white armbands, holding a rattle in left hand, white fringed cloth waist sash with red ribbon trim tied, case mask painted mustard extending in arch pattern on chest, shoulders and back, black slit eyes, protruding beak-like mouth with stripes and dots, red and white arches on cheeks, red hair attachment at the top of mask, red yarn attachment on right side of mask
13½in. (34.3cm.) high

Lot Essay

Owner label reads in part: "The duck living near water is symbolic of that much needed substance of the desert Hopi. The Hopi never looked on the wild duck as game birds but on the contary prayed to them." This doll has all the characteristics of Pawik'china, the Duck Kachina (see Wright, 1977, p. 92).