Hopi Konin Kachin’mana Katsina Doll [SOLD]
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- Category: Traditional
- Origin: Hopi Pueblo, Hopituh Shi-nu-mu
- Medium: cottonwood, ribbon, feathers, yarn, paint
- Size: 9-3/4” to tip of feathers
- Item # C3535.35 SOLD
The Hopi have created Katsinas in honor of their neighbors. The Konin is a representation of the essence of the Havasupai Indian. It is not an image borrowed from the Havasupai but rather a Katsina to make use of the power of the other tribe.
In each case, there is a male (Konin) and a female (Konin Kachin'mana). The mana dresses in a buckskin dress, has an elaborate feather display on her head, and trails of red ribbon somewhat in the likeness of a feathered head bonnet.
The carving appears to date to the early 2000s. There is no name of a carver affixed to it.
Condition: The carving is in very good condition. The right arm has separated slightly at the seam of the elbow. It has not been broken and re-glued, but has separated through expansion.
Provenance: from the collection of a family from Oregon
Recommended Reading: Kachinas: a Hopi Artist’s Documentary by Barton Wright with paintings by Cliff Bahnimptewa
- Category: Traditional
- Origin: Hopi Pueblo, Hopituh Shi-nu-mu
- Medium: cottonwood, ribbon, feathers, yarn, paint
- Size: 9-3/4” to tip of feathers
- Item # C3535.35 SOLD
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