A Hototo kachina doll
A Pueblo kachina doll
Depicting A-ha, the Kachin-mana, with maiden's whorls, beard and manta.
height 10 3/4in

Estimate:
US$ 7,000 - 10,000
£4,500 - 6,400
€5,200 - 7,500

Footnotes

  • The provenience of this doll is difficult to ascertain. It is not made of cottonwood, the medium for all Hopi dolls, but rather of pine. That fact points to a potential Zuni attribution, but the unusual flat style of the carving, the less elongated body type - more characteristic of the Zuni aesthetic, and the lack of articulated appendages potentially point to some other unidentified Pueblo.

Category: Ethnographic Art / Native American


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Jim Haas Bonhams
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Ingmars Lindbergs Bonhams
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