1913.87.63

Collection type

Object

Description

Wooden kachina doll, painted with black horizontal stripes. [ZM 28/11/2005]

Long description

Wooden kachina doll, painted with black horizontal stripes. [ZM 28/11/2005] The doll has two horns nailed into the top of the head. The doll has a painted red belt. [MJD 21/08/2009]

Geographical reference

United States of America

Northern America > North America > United States of America

Arizona First Mesa Walpi

Cultural groups

Hopi

Person

Maker Gunauja

Field collector Barbara Whitchurch Freire-Marreco

PRM source Barbara Whitchurch Freire-Marreco

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1913

Date collected

1913

Acquisition information

Donated: 1913

Materials and processes

Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Material Metal, Material Pigment, Process Painted, Process Nailed

Dimensions

Width: max 68 mm, Height: max 203 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1913.87.63 Other numbers: Catalogue number 63

Research and responses

C.f. Fewkes, 21st Ann. Rep. BAE, pl LVIII, 'Paiakjamu'.' [CW 28 1 98]

Associated publications

Illustrated in black and white page 28 of 'Primitive Influences on Modern Art', by W. G. Archer and Robert Melville, in 40,000 Years of Modern Art: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern [catalogue of an exhibition organized by the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Held at the Academy Hall, London, from 20 December 1948 to 29 January 1949], London: Institute of Contemporary Arts (no date [1948?]), pp. 9-46. Also listed as number 125 on page 52 of the 'The Art of Primitive Peoples' section of the 'Catalogue of the Exhibition': '*125 Katchina Dolls, representing tribal gods Painted wood and feathers Tewa Hano, Arizona / Lent by Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford'. [JC 19 7 2011]

Search terms: Toy and Game, Religion, Figure, Doll Figure, Religious Object