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Kachina doll

Hopi, Arizona
Circa 1900
Height: 39 cm
Cottonwood, pigments and feathers

Pahlik Mana (Butterfly Maiden) Katsina

« This Hopi doll represents the goddess of maize. In the crenelated frame around the head, you’ll see the clouds over the mountains; in the small chequerboard at the center of the forehead, the ear of maize; and around the mouth, the rainbow […]. Is this not poetry as we continue to hear it?”
André Breton, Le Littéraire, 1946

Provenance

Ex Arrowsmith’s, Prescott, Arizona
Ex collection Paul Peralta-Ramos (1931-2003), Taos, USA
Ex Sotheby’s New York, 24 June 2004, lot 119

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Kachina doll