Lot n° 235
Estimation :
15000 - 18000
EUR
HO-O-TE. Kachina shown standing with both arms at his sides - Lot 235
HO-O-TE. Kachina shown standing with both arms at his sides and his forearms extended forward. He is dressed in a red vest, white skirt and black belt. The eyes are two circles and the mouth is a cylinder. He wears two beautiful black horns and cult attributes. The Kachina shown here appears in groups at ordinary dances and sometimes at the "snake dance" during the Niman festival. Painted wood, red, black, white, yellow and green polychromy. Height: 31.5 cm. Arizona, Oraibi site. Hopi people. Number 18/6190 from the Heye Foundation, New York. Collected at the Oraibi site by Mr. H.R.Voth in 1898. Then acquired by the Museum of the American Indian, by exchange with Mr. John Louw Nelson (musician and amateur ethnologist) in April 1934. Bearing the description: doll representing Sawka Hote Kachina. Exchanged by the museum to the Delacorte gallery in August 1957, then to a French collection. Feather and down from the Canada Goose (Granta canadensis), a species not regulated under the Washington Convention (CITES), EC Regulation 338/97 of 09/12/1996 and the French Environment Code.
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