Detail View: Image Archives: Wuyak-ku-ita Kachina Doll

File Name: 
IV.CI-AC.4403.D.jpg
catalog number: 
IV.CI-AC.4403.D
collection: 
Anthropology
title: 
Wuyak-ku-ita Kachina Doll
creator: 
Richard M. Wicker
creator type: 
Photographer
creator: 
Jenny Rodger
creator type: 
creator digital collection
description: 
The mask is made from a yucca basket covered with cotton cloth and painted black and sprinkled with gypsum fragments to give it a glittering appearance. His teeth are made of neatly twisted corn husks and the beard is made of horse hair. Wuyak-ku-ita appears in the Bean Dance at First Mesa with Soyoko. "Snake kachina". Called Wuyaqqötö 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: 
1.27 MB
source: 
Nikon D300, Born Digital
rights: 
Denver Museum of Nature & Science