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Object Number 45-25-10/28817
Display Title Tasap Katsina (Navajo Katsina)
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Tasap; cc:Taatangaya
Object Description Tasap Katsina (Navajo Katsina) carved from cottonwood root, painted greeen, red, black, yellow, and white. On the head are Eagle feather plumes, the ears are made in the form of squash blossoms. Around the face is a rainbow, the eyes are characteristically Tasap Katsinam. This Katsina wears a white kilt painted green, red, and black. His legs are painted different color one green the other yellow. His nose and left arm are broken off and missing.
Inventory Description Kachina, carved wood, polychrome, feather headdress, yarn ears, broken
Classification
  • Figurine
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hopi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Arizona
Additional Geographic Terms Arizona, northeast
Dimensions Overall: 23 x 9 x 5.2 cm (9 1/16 x 3 9/16 x 2 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 45-25-10/28817
Provenance
Collector Dr. Jesse Walter Fewkes (1892)
Collector Thomas V. Keam (1892)
Donor Mary T. Hemenway (May 5, 1945)

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