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Hopi Pueblo Unfinished Kokosori Katsina Doll by Lowell Talashoma, Sr. - C2425F
Category: Kachina - Katsina | Posted by | Thu, Aug 18th 2016, 4:11pm
Lowell Talashoma, Sr. has always been one of the finest carvers on the Hopi Reservation. He prided himself on good form, good musculature, and carving the complete doll from a single piece of cottonwood root. I talked Lowell into selling it to me because I was so impressed with the form and proportion of the body, all accomplished with a pocketknife. I find it fascinating that a carver can pick up a round piece of cottonwood root and carve a human body in such accurate proportion using only a pocketknife.