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Object Number 45-25-10/28865
Display Title Ma´lo Katsina
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Ma´lokatsina; cc:Malo
Object Description Ma'lo Katsina carved from cottonwood root with feathers, horse hair, and a squash blossom on its head. The face is paionted black, grey, orange, borwn and white. The body is painted orange with a white band going from it right shoulder to its left hip. It is wearing a piece of cotton fabric as it kilt which is painted black.
Inventory Description Kachina doll, carved wood, poly pig., feather, yarn, and hair headdress, kilt
Classification
  • Figurine
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hopi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Arizona / Navajo County / Hopi Reservation / First Mesa
North America / United States / Arizona / Navajo County / Hopi Reservation / First Mesa / Walpi
Additional Geographic Terms Arizona, northeast
Dimensions Overall: 37.1 x 29 x 10.6 cm (14 5/8 x 11 7/16 x 4 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 45-25-10/28865
Provenance
Collector Dr. Jesse Walter Fewkes (1892)
Donor Mary T. Hemenway (05/05/1945)

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