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Traditional Hopi Puelbo Masha’n - Flower Katsina Doll - C3535.05

Category: Kachina - Katsina | Posted by Adobe Gallery Team Member | Fri, Aug 26th 2016, 2:03pm

katsina Doll C3535.05In Hopi Journal, Alexander Stephen provided an excellent accounting of spring and early summer Katsina dances that occurred in 1891 in which this katsina participated.  Such dances are pleas for rain at the season of planting.  There is a four-day ritual abstinence, mask preparation and prayer-stick making in the kiva before the dance commences.  Dance practice and song rehearsal occur during these four days. 

 

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