DANCING KACHINAS A Hopi Artist’s Documentary [SOLD]

DANCING KACHINAS A Hopi Artist's Documentary

Original Paintings by Cliff Bahnimptewa

The Heard Museum of Anthropology and Primitive Art

Softcover, 1971

Our note: Hopi artist Cliff Bahnimptewa was commissioned to paint 286 Hopi katsinas to preserve their imagery for posterity. Most of those paintings have been published in Barton Wright's book on Hopi katsinas (KACHINAS A Hopi Artist's Documentary, 1973). Forty-eight of those color images of those paintings are presented here first in this rare and out-of-print edition book.

From the Preface

The Heard Museum is pleased to present this important collection of Hopi kachina paintings sponsored by Dr. and Mrs. Dean Nichols of Phoenix, Arizona. Although the Hopi Indians are among the most conservative of American Indian tribes, they too are subject to the constant and gradual pressures of change that the anthropologist calls acculturation. This fact alone is reason enough to encourage the collection of this valuable ethnographic information before it is too late. The sponsorship of the artist Bahnimptewa by the Nicholses is a most worthwhile investment in helping to preserve the record of Hopi life-ways.