A Hopi Polychrome Wood Kachina Doll, depicting Honan

or Badger, standing with arms hugging his body, wearing a painted kilt, with snake design, and fringed hide belt, the white case mask with badger tracks on the cheeks, red eye rims, flanked by exaggerated stylized ears, surmounted by a headdress composed of red-dyed horsehair and Ring-necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) feathers.

Minor hairline surface split on the back along the right arm.The hide is extremely dry and fragile. The painted surface is dusty but in very good original condition.
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