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Kachina Doll (Helele)07.467.8417

Helele or Hilili are participants in a dance often chosen by a kiva to perform after the winter solstice ceremonies. This is possibly the Hilili Kachina known as the Corn Hilili. He wears a helmet style mask with long beard and feathered top. On his shoulders he wears a fur cape, body is painted red and he wears a painted dance skirt and sash. His chest and arms are painted red. He wears blue hide boots with red trim and has yarn tied around his calves.

Culture
She-we-na
Material
wood, feather, cotton, fur, pigment, hair and hide
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Kachina Doll (Patchu)07.467.8416

This Kachina doll is slightly unusual as it has carved facial features. Its arms are articulated at the shoulders and it wears a cotton warp dance skirt with painted sash and trim. Wool yarn is wrapped around the wrists and ankles and the boots are painted on. A cap is nailed to the head with remnants of fur remaining.

Culture
She-we-na
Material
wood, pigment, fur, cotton and wool
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Kachina Doll (Hai-a Wi-ha)03.325.3205

Museum Expedition 1903, Museum Collection Fund

Culture
She-we-na
Material
wood, pigment, fur, hide, wool, feather and cotton
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Kolowisi Water Serpent Puppet04.297.5211

Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund

Culture
She-we-na
Material
wood, cloth, hair, fur, pigment, hide, feather and gourd
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Kachina Doll2010.6.11

Unknown type of Kachina Doll (possibly a Whippers Uncle (Tungwup) Taahaamo). This Kachina stands on both feet with PR arm slightly rose holding a white cane with a feather dangling from it. His PL arm is lower and carries a painted pouch and decorated flat "wand" which has feathers dangling from it. His entire shirt is wood, white and long sleeved with with black yarn ties at his wrists. He has a braided black yarn bandolier across chest from right to left. Wears the traditional Hopi skirt and sash with a carved fox tail in the back. He crouches a bit but both feet are down on base. His mask is helmet style, black with goggle eyes and a fierce open shark-like mouth showing red with white teeth. He has two straight horns, blue with feathers on the tips. Around his face is a white cotton ruff across the top and a fur ruff along the bottom. In the back of his head he has brown striped feathers.

Culture
Pueblo and Hopi
Material
cottonwood root, acrylic paint, yarn, feather, fur, leather and cotton
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Kachina Doll2010.6.1

Hunter (Ahote) Kachina. Artist Orin Poley. This Kachina appears in the mixed dances and is probably derived from Plains Native Tribes influence. The figure is carved from one piece of cottonwood root. He raises his PR leg and arm. He holds a painted wooden snake in that hand and the snake wraps around to the left side of his head. His PL arm is lowered and holds a bow from which dangle a white feather on each end. The PL leg has a string tie with metal bells tied onto it. He wears a long trailer style war bonnet of feathers carved from wood and panted white with black tips. His entire body is painted blue with black four point stars on his shoulders and chest and the front of his mask. His mask style is rounded with a short snout, teeth showing. His face has black and red triangular designs, goggle eyes and large red ears with narrow feathers thrust through the ears horizontally. He wears a carved wooden simulated hide skirt with a belt with a pouch and a traditional style Hopi sash (carved). He wears carved red and blue boots with red tops. Across his chest is a string bandolier with shells and turquoise beads.

Culture
Pueblo and Hopi
Material
cottonwood root, acrylic pigment, hide, feather, shell, fur, turquioise and metal
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Collar with Whistle Worn in the Hashk'an Dance04.297.5430

This collar is richly decorated with claws (bear's?) and fur appendages wrapped with quillwork and yarns. It might have been used for the singer to attract the Hoply People.

Culture
Navajo
Material
hide, fur, sinew, claw, wool, quill, cotton, plant fibre, pigment and resinous material
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Woman's Dance Headdress (I-sa-wa)06.331.8076

This type of headdress is restricted to women wearing it. The quill decorations are commonly used on many dance regalia articles in southern California.The decorations mounted on slender wires will move as the wearer moves.

Culture
Pomo
Material
fur, red shafted flicker feather, quill, glass bead, wool yarn, iron wire, cotton, wool cloth and cotton string
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Charm11.694.8996

One bear claw with some fur still attached on a hide thong.

Culture
Osage
Material
black bear claw, fur and string
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Indian Boy's Coat44.27.1

Culture
Crow
Material
hide, bead, bone button, fur and wool
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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