Hopi Pueblo Horo Mana Katsina, Cold Bringing Woman Kachina Doll [SOLD]

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Brian Honyouti, Hopi Pueblo Carver
  • Category: Traditional
  • Origin: Hopi Pueblo, Hopituh Shi-nu-mu
  • Medium: cottonwood, oil-based stains
  • Size:
    8-¾” tall by 4-⅜” at widest point
  • Item # C4555F
  • SOLD

This Katsina is Horo Mana or Cold Bringing Woman. It was expertly carved from one solid piece of cottonwood root. This Cold Bringing Woman katsina doll features a feather extending from a full head of snowy hair.  An unpigmented shawl creases over her shoulders and meets with a windswept skirt below. The entirety of her regalia moves with the suggestion of the weather she is known for bringing.

On one hand she menacingly taunts with the bundles of reeds used traditionally by the Hopi as a comb, and on the other hand she carries a cane.  She is poised in a way that suggests her intent, that of a chill and flurry of movement— a brisque transition of the seasons. 

Carver initials of Brian Honyouti, Hopi Pueblo carverWhite moccasins rest upon a highly decorated stand.  Near her feet, a mountain rises, carved into sections painted yellow, green, and red, and potentially indicate directional winds as similarly colored arrows reach out in both directions.  Below the mountain are three downward lines painted blue around, as if to signify the snow falling from the sky.  A lateral line extends as well, and reaches down and around a full, snow-capped mountain range ornamenting the vertical portion of this carving’s base. 

Horo Mana is a katsina from the Tewa Village of First Mesa, sometimes called the Yohozoro Wuhti and she appears during the Powamu ceremonies.  She carries a comb in one hand, to muss up people’s hair when she appears with Nuvak’china, her grandson.  She appears in all white. As her name implies, she brings the whiteness of winter and furthermore, the much-needed moisture of Winter snow. 

Hopi Pueblo artist Brian Honyouti had started carving katsina dolls in the 1960s after graduating from high school. He helped his dad paint his dolls and learned to carve his own at that time. According to Helga Teiwes, he was the first carver to use wood preservers and wood sealers as an undercoat for the carvings. She said he was also the first to substitute wood preserver for paint and to use oil paints in lieu of acrylic paints. These innovations provided a mellow tone to his carvings rather than the shiny gloss of acrylics.

When Adobe Gallery was actively purchasing katsina dolls from the Hopi Honyouti brothers (Brian, Lauren, and Ronald) in the 1980s and 1990s, Brian Honyouti (1947 - 2016) was seriously involved in running a school for the children of his village of Bacavi. He founded the school, was the teacher, and was the principal. He was a strong advocate of education. He, himself, had obtained a bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of Arizona in 1971.


Condition: This katsina doll is in excellent condition

Provenance: this Hopi Pueblo Horo Mana Katsina, Cold Bringing Woman Kachina Doll is from the estate of a family from New Mexico

Reference: Kachina Dolls: The Art of Hopi Carvers by Helga Teiwes

Recommended Reading: BRIAN HONYOUTI Hopi Carver by Zena Pearlstone

Relative Links:  Hopi PuebloLauren HonyoutiRonald Honyoutikatsina dollsBrian Honyouti, Hopi Pueblo Carver

 

Brian Honyouti, Hopi Pueblo Carver
  • Category: Traditional
  • Origin: Hopi Pueblo, Hopituh Shi-nu-mu
  • Medium: cottonwood, oil-based stains
  • Size:
    8-¾” tall by 4-⅜” at widest point
  • Item # C4555F
  • SOLD

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