- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wooden katsina doll, with stepped headress and textile clothing. [MJD 20/08/2009]
- Long description
- Wooden katsina doll, with stepped headress and textile clothing. There is a bunch of feathers at back of head, a bunch of parrot feathers in front hair and a feather on one side of the brow band. Two small pieces of down feather remain on top of wooden headdress. The doll has a necklace of shell beads. The face is painted. The doll has wooden lightening symbols tied to each hand. The top [sega?] and skirt [wagi?] of calico are painted in a geometric design. There is a loop of string tied round the neck. [MJD 20/08/2009]
- Geographical reference
- Arizona Tewa Village (Hano)
- Cultural groups
- Hopi-Tewa
- Person
- Maker Sibihunba
- Field collector Barbara Whitchurch Freire-Marreco
- PRM source Barbara Whitchurch Freire-Marreco
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1913
- Date collected
- 1912 - 1913
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1913
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Material Bird Feather, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Shell, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Process Painted, Process Carved, Process Stitched, Process Strung, Process Tied
- Dimensions
- Height 250 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1913.87.59 Other numbers: Catalogue number 59
- Research and responses
For dolls, see Fewkes, Internat. Archiv fur Ethn. Band VII.' [CW 28 1 98]
Search terms: Toy and Game, Religion, Ritual and Ceremonial, Figure, Doll Figure, Religious Object
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