Detail View: Image Archives: Honan Kachina Doll

File Name: 
IV.CI-AC.4373.D.jpg
catalog number: 
IV.CI-AC.4373.D
collection: 
Anthropology
title: 
Honan Kachina Doll
creator: 
Richard M. Wicker
creator type: 
Photographer
creator: 
Jenny Rodger
creator type: 
creator digital collection
description: 
A case mask with eagle feather ears, a snout with teeth, and badger tracks on cheeks. The case masks can be white, green, black, or brown. It has a Douglas fir or fur ruff. It wears a kilt, sash, and orange moccasins. There are white strips on the top of the snout, up the face between the eyes and over the head. It appears in Mixed Kachina Dances, and in the Water Serpent Ceremony at First Mesa. "Badgers are medicine men-supposed to carry medicine whith them (like similar pouches of cornmeal around necks of clowns.)" Called Honànkatsina in the Hopi Dictionary.
date: 
Jan. 11, 2011
date type: 
date of photograph
date: 
1945-1985
date type: 
date of creation
location: 
USA, Colorado, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
modified: 
No
format: 
image/jpg
file size: 
1.38 MB
source: 
Nikon D300, Born Digital
rights: 
Denver Museum of Nature & Science