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Object Number 45-25-10/28818
Display Title Tasap Katsina (Navajo Katsina)
Descriptions
Indigenous Term cc:Tasap (Navajo)--third Mesa dialect. Tasav--Second Mesa dialect.
Object Description Tasap Katsina (Navajo Katsina) carved from cottonwood root painted with natural pigments with Eagle feathers on its head. The face is painted green with a rainbow across its forehead, the bodyis painted orange with green and yellow on the upper chest, it is wearing a traditional white kilt painted green, black, and yellow.
Inventory Description Kachina, wood, polychrome, beak mouth, feathers tied w/ string on left side of h
Classification
  • Figurine
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hopi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Arizona
Additional Geographic Terms Arizona, northeast
Dimensions Overall: 25.5 x 7.7 x 5 cm (10 1/16 x 3 1/16 x 1 15/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 45-25-10/28818
Provenance
Collector Thomas V. Keam (1892)
Collector Dr. Jesse Walter Fewkes (1892)
Donor Mary T. Hemenway (May 5, 1945)

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