Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Kachina Figure

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Kachina Figure
Image View: 
Overall view from front
Creator: 
unknown (Hopi artist)
Location: 
repository: FABA (Fundación Almine Y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso Para El Arte) (Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
Location Note: 
From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present (2018 exhibition)
Date: 
1907 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Hopi; Native American
Style Period: 
Hopi; Pueblo (Native American style)
Work Type 1: 
figurine
Classification: 
Sculpture and Installations
Material: 
cottonwood; pigments
Technique: 
carving (processes); painting and painting techniques
Measurements: 
23 cm (height) x 8.5 cm (width) x 7.3 cm (depth)
Subjects: 
decorative arts; spirits; ritual; dance
Description: 
A kachina is a spirit being in the religious beliefs of the Pueblo people. The kachina concept has three different aspects: the supernatural being, the kachina dancers, and kachina dolls, small dolls carved in the likeness of the kachina, that are given only to those who are, or will be responsible for the respectful care and well-being of the doll, such as a mother, wife, or sister. Hopi kachina are figures carved, typically from cottonwood root, by Hopi people to instruct young girls and new brides about katsinas or katsinam, the immortal beings that bring rain, control other aspects of the natural world and society, and act as messengers between humans and the spirit world. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier: 
7A3-AFRICAN-FAFFM-DO1-A01
Rights: 
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