Detail View: Image Archives: Sowi-ing Kachina Doll

File Name: 
IV.CI-AC.428.D.jpg
catalog number: 
IV.CI-AC.428.D
collection: 
Anthropology
title: 
Sowi-ing Kachina Doll
creator: 
Richard M. Wicker
creator type: 
Photographer
creator: 
Jenny Rodger
creator type: 
creator digital collection
description: 
Carved balsa doll with headdress and white kilt. The right leg is green and the left one is yellow. It has a red mox, torso, and arms. There is a yellow cross edged in black on each cheek. It has a black tube mouth. There are head appendages missing - See photo Fig. 7, Colton -Antelope Kachina. A green case mask with missing deer horns on top of the head. There are blossoms for ears and a snout with teeth. It has a kilt, sash, and red moccasins. Usually has red and yellow body paint or may wear a velvet shirt instead. It leans on a cane. Called Tsöpkatsina in the Hopi Dictionary.
date: 
Jan. 11, 2011
date type: 
date of photograph
date: 
1910-1945
date type: 
date of creation
location: 
USA, Colorado, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
modified: 
No
format: 
image/jpg
file size: 
1.21 MB
source: 
Nikon D300, Born Digital
rights: 
Denver Museum of Nature & Science