Hopi Pueblo Kau-a Kachin Mana Katsina [SOLD]

This is most likely Kau-a Kachin Mana Katsina although someone has labeled her Maswik in pencil on verso. The female version of the Kau-a Katsina wears the red and yellow stripes on her cheeks but the female Maswik Mana does not. The Kau-a Kachin Mana has a tubular snout nose, but in this doll it is featured as a black triangle. These differences may have been deliberate on the part of the carver. Some carvers do not believe it appropriate to make the dolls accurate if they are to be sold to non-Hopi.

According to Barton Wright, both the male and female of this katsina are the old style of the Navajo Katsina. The male sings in Navajo when he appears and the female kneels and uses a rasper and scapula on a basket.

Condition: The foot has been broken and glued. It is practically indistinguishable at the break. There is minor chipping of the black paint at the hair line.

Provenance: From the estate of Transcendental artist Florence Pierce of Albuquerque who passed away in 2007 at the age of 89.