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Object Number 45-25-10/28711
Display Title Pahlikmana Tablita (headdress)
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Bi-lin-ti-ki-bi Naktci; Pahlikmana-Butterfly Maiden
Object Description Painted wood head tablet of the Butterfly Dance. Painted wood head tablita for the Pahlikmana Dance. Along the top of the tablita are five (5) cloud motifs, three sunflowers and two tad poles also are depicted on the tablita, on the opposite side of the tablita are two birds, two tad poles, two medicine wheels, and a sunflower. it is painted with red, blue, yelow, black, and white.
Inventory Description Tableta, wood, cloud cutouts, poly- chrome birds, flowers, tadpoles, with hide
Classification
  • Raw Material
  • Headdress
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hopi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Arizona
Additional Geographic Terms Arizona, northeast
Dimensions Overall: 30.9 x 28.1 x 1.7 cm (12 3/16 x 11 1/16 x 11/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 45-25-10/28711 & 3549
Provenance
Collector Dr. Jesse Walter Fewkes (1892)
Collector Thomas V. Keam (1892)
Donor Mary T. Hemenway (May 5, 1945)

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