Kachina Doll "Malo"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 Jul 1991
label: Collection Date
content: 1922
name: label: Collector
content: Not Given
label: Donor Name
content: Charleston Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: FADED AND FLAKING RED, BLACK, GREEN AND WHITE PAINTED DECORATION. CASE MASK-RIGHT HALF RED, LEFT HALF WITH REMAINS OF WHITE PAINT; BLACK HORIZONTAL SLIT EYES; VERTICAL NOSE LINE BISECTING MASK FACE AND HORIZONTAL TOP LINE OF BLACK AND WHITE CHECKER BOARDS; RED DYED HORSEHAIR TUFT AND REMAINS OF FEATHER QUILLS TIED TO LEFT SIDE OF MASK; FLOWER ON RIGHT SIDE MISSING; TUBE MOUTH MISSING. LIGHTER LINE AT TOP OF KILT MAY INDICATE FORMER PRESENCE OF SASH OR OTHER WAIST ORNAMENTATION. HOLES ON BACK OF MASK AND BACK OF BODY PERHAPS INDICATE OTHER MISSING APPENDAGES. CHARLESTON MUSEUM NUMBER ETN-525 ON BACK. NO SMITHSONIAN NUMBERS IDENTIFIED. CHARLESTON MUSEUM RECORDS IDENTIFY AS HOPI. TOM KAVANAGH IDENTIFIED IT AS MALO KACHINA, PRE-1920'S, AND COMMENTS THAT KILT STYLE IS NOT STANDARD, 2-1-1991. MALO IDENTIFICATION CONFIRMED BY CONSULTING HOPI KACHINA DOLLS, HAROLD S. COLTON, 1959, P.50 + 103.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Hopi Pueblo, Hopi Reservation / Navajo County, Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hopi
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 387023
label: USNM Number
content: E425676-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Katsina Doll
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 22 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 7 cm