Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC0605003

Category: Doll - Kachina

Region: Southwest

Tribe: Hopi

Period: 1925-1950 - ca. 1940

Materials: Cottonwood root, pigments and canvas

Description: Hopi Kachina doll depicting a clown, of naturalized form, the body painted with a series of black and white stripes, wearing a painted cloth dance sash; the mask, with protruding snout, pop eyes, and red fragmentary ears; attributed to Wilson Tawaquaptewa.

Dimensions: Height 11.5 inches 29 cm

Provenance:

Alan Kessler Collection

References:

Sotheby's Auction Catalogue, Sotheby's, New York, Sale N08210, Lot 70, May 8, 2006

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