Hopi Polychrome Wood Kachina Doll Depicting Kau-A, Arizona

wood, trade cloth, horse hair, wool yarn, natural and commercial pigments.

Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation 9/934
George Shaw, Aspen CO
Hugh and Gay Eaton Collection, Aspen CO, acquired from the above

Good overall condition with wear associated with age including one fragmentary foot, repair to the right shoulder and minor surface abrasion resulting in loss of pigment.
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