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Hopi Pueblo Tile with Three Horn Katsina Image by Alberta Adams - C3843K
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Wed, Nov 2nd 2016, 1:31pm
The Payik'ala - Three Horn Katsina appears in the Mixed Dance. Barton Wright says that there are Hopi who remember this Katsina being danced at Third Mesa before 1906. This is a good representation of this Katsina, and it is in very good condition. Harold S. Colton states that it was introduced from Zuni to First Mesa in 1921.
The Kachina has a black band across his eyes, three horns sticking upward from his mask and is bare chested. He carries a bow in his left hand and a gourd rattle in his right. The artist has presented a very good likeness of the Katsina.