Doll "ma' alo katsina" ("stick katsina"), ca. 1930s-1940s
North America, Hopi
not available anymore
Size
H: 30 cm
H: 11.8 inch
Description
wood (from the root of the cottonwood tree), coated with white clay (kaolin) and painted with red, black and light blue pigment, provided with just one funnel-shaped ear, a tuft of red dyed animal hair in place of the left ear, slightly dam., abrasion of paint, rep. (two breakages: left foot tip), base