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Lot 334

An unusual Hopi polychrome tile

6 – 7 June 2016, 11:00 PDT
San Francisco

Sold for US$3,500 inc. premium

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An unusual Hopi polychrome tile

With the rare depiction of Sumaikoli, a deity and not really a kachina, clutching a pair of corn plants, a tripod headpiece at top.
length 6 1/2in, width 4 1/8in

Footnotes

Illustrated
Struever, Martha, 2001, p. 28, ill. 31, left-side

In a note to the collector, Martha Struever of Santa Fe who sold the piece wrote: "A young lawyer from Texas, Chad Burkhardt, is an exceptional source on Hopi. His parents worked at Keam's Canyon so he grew up there. He called to tell me your Hopi tile is not a "Two Horn" priest but is a very rare figure he has never seen painted on anything. It is Somai-a-kola, a blind katsina that appears only at Hano on very rare occasions, always in a group of 6 led by a priest!"

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