This is a painted Koshare clown kachina doll with a sad face. During ceremonies clowns provide much fun and merriment but they also do personify supernatural beings and serve an important social function. They serve as every person’s social conscious and are quick to ridicule and point out transgressions through their antics. No one is safe from their ridicule Hopi and non-Hopi individuals alike.

Rectangular flat tile, with white slip. Complex design of triangular elements at top and bottom with vertical elements at either side, a diagonal stepped design in the center. Double black border, brown slipped decoration. Made in a mold. CONDITION: Holes in top and bottom center.

This kachina Doll is carved from one piece of wood. The entire body is painted black.This kachjina probably represent Pookon (Pookong) "of the sun" the elder of the War Twins in Hopi creation myth. (The younger is Balonga). The War Twins mother was Spider Woman and there are many stories about them.

Male kachina doll , Kokopelli, with horsehair and large feather attached to top of head. Face is black with white horizontal stripes for eyes. A similar vertical stripe bisects face. Nose is cone-shaped and painted with pattern of horizontal stripes. Body decorated in red and light green. Belt is wide and made of white cotton twine. Right hand holds rattle. Back carved as a hunchback. Surface wear.

The blue color of these high top shoes indicates they may have been worn by Kachina Dancers. The red fringe was colored by dye made from alder bark or rubbed iron oxide. Calcium carbonate might have created the blue color. A band of porcupine quills covers the heels.

Rectangular flat tile, with white slip. Decorated with a large symbol of oblique lines at the top, possibly representing lightening. On the bottom half of the tile is a diagonal line with three oblique line designs on each side. Design rendered in black, with black border. An octagonal label with a black border on the verso reads : "From the HOPI VILLAGE 950". Made in a mold. CONDITION: One hole at top center of tile.