Hopi Kachina Doll Mini Hand Made Wood Racer Snake Native Katsina Navajo Zuni
Item History & Price
This is a beautiful hand painted Native American art doll. Hand carved by a HOPI artist, doll is named "Racer Snake", made of Cotton wood from SouthWestern US. An added special touch by the artist using a US Penny coin as stand.
Fantastic colors & design representing traditional Native peoples. Minis sized piece of authentic Indian art. Meticulously hand painted complete with FEATHERS, CLOTH sash and other traditional symbols & colors. This is a one of kind piece of Native A...merican Southwestern art that was purchased inside Navajo territory and was made by a HOPI artist. Signed on the bottom by the artist "SC"
Measures 2.5 inches tall X .5 inches width
Kachinas are spirits or personifications of things in the real world. These spirits are believed to visit the Hopi villages during the first half of the year. A kachina can represent anything in the natural world or cosmos, from a revered ancestor to an element, a location, a quality, a natural phenomenon, or a concept. The local pantheon of kachinas varies in each pueblo community; there may be kachinas for the sun, stars, thunderstorms, wind, corn, insects, and many other concepts. Kachinas are understood as having humanlike relationships; they may have uncles, sisters, and grandmothers, and may marry and have children. Although not worshipped, each is viewed as a powerful being who, if given veneration and respect, can use his particular power for human good, bringing rainfall, healing, fertility, or protection, for example.
The central theme of the kachina is the presence of life in all objects that fill the universe. Everything has an essence or a life force, and humans must interact with these or fail to survive.
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Fantastic colors & design representing traditional Native peoples. Minis sized piece of authentic Indian art. Meticulously hand painted complete with FEATHERS, CLOTH sash and other traditional symbols & colors. This is a one of kind piece of Native A...merican Southwestern art that was purchased inside Navajo territory and was made by a HOPI artist. Signed on the bottom by the artist "SC"
Measures 2.5 inches tall X .5 inches width
Kachinas are spirits or personifications of things in the real world. These spirits are believed to visit the Hopi villages during the first half of the year. A kachina can represent anything in the natural world or cosmos, from a revered ancestor to an element, a location, a quality, a natural phenomenon, or a concept. The local pantheon of kachinas varies in each pueblo community; there may be kachinas for the sun, stars, thunderstorms, wind, corn, insects, and many other concepts. Kachinas are understood as having humanlike relationships; they may have uncles, sisters, and grandmothers, and may marry and have children. Although not worshipped, each is viewed as a powerful being who, if given veneration and respect, can use his particular power for human good, bringing rainfall, healing, fertility, or protection, for example.
The central theme of the kachina is the presence of life in all objects that fill the universe. Everything has an essence or a life force, and humans must interact with these or fail to survive.
SS-1 JB-1
"A"ET
