A Hopi polychrome canteen
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Property of the Southern Oregon Historical Society
A Hopi polychrome canteen
Painted with the bust of a kachina, bearing the rectangular eyes, triangular mouth, red disc ears and warrior marks on the cheeks of Ishe, or Mustard Green kachina, though with atypical plant sprigs and split-end projections atop the head.
length 10 3/4in, width 9in
Sold for US$ 9,760 inc. premium

Category: Ethnographic Art / Native American

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