Lot n° 278
Estimation :
500 - 600
EUR
SHALAKO. Kachina representing a giant bird. Painted wood, re - Lot 278
SHALAKO. Kachina representing a giant bird. Painted wood, red, blue, black and white polychrome, feathers (there are no feathers belonging to regulated bird species.) Height: 32 cm. We are in the presence of a mythical being. It is a Hopi representation of the Zuni kachina, Shalako, known as the Giant Bird. Appearances of this spirit are rare in the Hopi kachina calendar. His dance is usually performed when the need for rain is most intense. This spirit originally came from the neighboring Zuni and seems to have entered the Hopi pantheon in the first part of the 19th century. Arizona. Hopi people. Circa 1950. Exhibition in Dinard from January 24 to March 8, 2009, "On les appelait Sauvages" reproduced in the catalog, page 24.
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