Hopi Wood Katsina Doll

Description:

Hopi Wood Katsina Doll, representing Lenang, the Flute Kachina from the Mixed Katsina Dance, with red-painted body and yellow and pale blue legs, forearms, and shoulders, wearing a feathered cape trimmed with red tradecloth, the sack mask with hatched marks on the cheeks, rectangular mouth and eyes and long coiffure surmounted by a crown of wood pegs, ht. 9 1/4 in.

Provenance: Private collection, Newton, Massachusetts; Sotheby's, New York, October 25, 1984, Lot 162.
Estimate $800-1,200

Missing one large feather at the back; the ornaments on the head have been reattached; right thumb is missing the end


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