TWENTY FIVE KACHINA DOLLS

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TWENTY FIVE KACHINA DOLLS
Including one of the 'mudheads' painted reddish brown, four with gesticulating arms including heheya, 'the rooster', 'moon', and a series of small figures called 'whipper', 'corn', 'thunder', 'cloud', 'rain cloud' and 'rain priest', all painted in colours and many with attached feathers
7cm. to 27cm. high (25)

Provenance

Some reputedly from the collection of André Breton

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Lot Essay

That André Breton was fond of katchinas is evident from photographs of his study and drawing room. They are shown in photographs of the period either amassed on the wall or on a shelf, see the exhibition catalogue André Breton La beauté convulsive, Paris, 1991, pp. 77 and 79. Unfortunately the images are not clear enough to make identification of any of the present examples conclusive.

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