**Originally Listed At $350**

Native American, Southwestern United States, Hopi Pueblo, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A hand-carved wood kachina doll with a cotton scarf around the neck and mottled brown turkey feathers attached to the head via yarn knotted into drilled cavities. The figure stands atop thick, delineated legs, and the arms are in low relief against the body, bent inward at the waist. The head is an oversized cylindrical shape with a peg inserted as a mouth or nose. Kachina dolls represent the Katsinam, supernatural beings who live in the high mountains of the San Francisco Peaks above traditional Hopi territory, speaking to the Hopi through costumed dance and song. These dancers emerge from the round ceremonial kivas that are at the center of their communities, singly or in groups, and dance to the music of drums, rattles, and song. Size: 3.25" L x 2.5" W x 12.5" H (8.3 cm x 6.4 cm x 31.8 cm)

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Provenance: ex-private Bishop Family Trust collection, the Trust of the late Bill Bishop, a noted antiquarian with shops in Scottsdale, Arizona and Allenspark, Colorado, USA, acquired before 2010

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Stable pressure fissure on head and feet. Surface wear and abrasions. Fraying to cotton cloth. Bending and losses to some feathers.