A ZUNI POLYCHROME WOOD KACHINA DOLL
Representing Salimopia Thluptsin'ona or the Yellow Warrior of the North from the Kachina Cult Initiation, with parted legs, slightly bent at the knees and articulated arms bent at the elbow and secured with metal tacks, sculpted hands, body painted yellow overall, wearing a white cloth kilt with decorated painted embroidery designs and applied red wool, a red wool yarn ruff at neck, yarn wrist and leg bands, helmet head with joined eyes, tubular snout and decorated with rosettes at ears 9in. (23.5cm.) high
Lot Essay
Cf. See Colton, 1959, p. 56, pl. 152 or Wright, 1977, pp. 57-60, for further discussion of the Salimopia Warriors.