ZUNI KACHINA FIGURE

George Terasaki, New York, acquired in the 1970s

Alexandra Pascassio and George Terasaki, Kachina: George Terasaki Collection, Paris, 2008, n.p., cat. no. 31

Hilili is alternately known by the nickname, the "Witch" Kachina. He came to the Hopi people from the Zuni or Laguna Pueblo prior to the start of the twentieth century. His appearance in village dances on the First Mesa was met with disapproval by Hopi living on the Second and Third Mesa, thus leading to his ominous pseudonym.