Kachina Doll
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1983
name: label: Collector
content: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit Service (Sites)
label: Collector
content: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit Service (Sites)
label: Donor Name
content: Sites Native Harvests
notes: label: Notes
content: HEMIS KACHINA DOLL MADE BY REGINA NAHA, HOPI. HEMIS IS PRINCIPAL CHRACTER IN NIMAN KACHINA DANCE (COLTON 1959: 50). ALSO CALLED NIMAN KACHINA OR JEMEZ KACHINA. DOLL HAS HEAD TABLET WITH PHALLIC AND CLOUD SYMBOLS WITH DOWN FEATHERS GLUED TO TOP AND BACK. GREEN SYNTHETIC YARN RUFF REPRESENTS DOUGLAS FIR RUFF. WEARING KILT, SASH, TRADITIONAL RED MOCCASINS, RABBIT FUR TAIL REPRESENTING FOX SKIN, AND BLACK, RED, AND GREEN SYNTHETIC YARN BELT REPRESENTING WOMAN'S BELT. BODY PAINTED BLACK TO REPRESENT CORN SMUT WITH WHITE HALF MOONS. GREEN ARM BANDS TIED WITH TANNED SKIN. CARRIES RATTLE WITH ONE FEATHER GLUED TO TOP AND GREEN SYNTHETIC YARN ON WHITE PAINTED WOODEN STICK REPRESENTING SPRIG OF DOUGLAS FIR. HAS BLACK SYNTHETIC YARN WRIST BAND ON RIGHT ARM, BROWN AND TURQUOISE WRIST BAND ON LEFT ARM, TURQUOISE ON 4TH DIGIT OF EACH HAND TO REPRESENT TURQUOISE RING. DOLL HAS PAPER STICKER ON BOTTOM WITH REGINA NAHA, HOPI, $285. ACQUIRED BY SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION TRAVELING EXHITION SERVICE (SITES) FOR NATIVE HARVESTS EXHIBITION 1983. ACCORDING TO SITES REVIEW OF EXHIBIT, DOLL WAS SPECIFICALLY CARVED FOR THE EXHIBIT (SITES UPDATE: 1984-85:94).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pueblo, Hopi
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 378691
label: USNM Number
content: E430183-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Katsina Doll
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 16 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 13 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 43 cm