Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund

Museum Expedition 1903, Museum Collection Fund

Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund

Small bowl with kachina design in bottom.

This small bowl has a white background with a red rim and the figure of a kachina in the center. The Hopi visit 1997 identified the figure as Hihie Mana.

Has # 22 tag on it. Early handwoven blanket that would have been worn by women or by Kachina dancers as a cape tied around the neck and tied under the arms.

Kachina figure is probably Crow Mother-Angwusnasomtaqa and is one of the mothers of the Kachinas. She answers to the various calls of her children and certain ceremonial actions such as leading the performance and special initiation of children. As such she knows all the etiquette, moral ethics and virtues thus appears always to be very stately. Wing like forms on each side of head and the dark triangular shape with bar at base symbolize facial features are characteristic. Figure is painted blue, black, and white; feet are painted red. Feather headdress missing, surface wear.

Museum Expedition 1905, Museum Collection Fund

"Fall Corn Dance" is an opaque watercolor over graphite drawing on a textured wove paper. The artist's signature, "Mootzka", is located at the bottom right corner of the image in black watercolor. The media is generally in good condition but there is some cracking in the dark blue skirts, the yellow stripes of the flag, the green in the feather headdresses, and in most of the red areas. There is also cracking in the brown drum and belt of the figure in pink. An previous acidic mat caused an orange-brown mat burn around the image.

Rectangular flat tile, decorated with white slip. Design of double isoceles triangle in brown slip flanked by black C-shaped elements on either side. Black border and frame. Made with a mold. CONDITION: Crack which has been mended in center of tile.