id: 109667 accession number: 1928.312 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1928.312 updated: 2023-03-04 09:29:41.559000 Hopi Kachina Dolls, c 1920s. Fred Kabotie (American, 1900–1986). Watercolor; page: 47.6 x 31.1 cm (18 3/4 x 12 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Educational Purchase Fund 1928.312 title: Hopi Kachina Dolls title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c 1920s creation date earliest: 1920 creation date latest: 1928 current location: creditline: Educational Purchase Fund copyright: --- culture: America, Native North American, Southwest, Pueblo, (Hopi), Early 20th century technique: watercolor department: Drawings collection: DR - American 20th Century type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Fred Kabotie (American, 1900–1986) - artist --- measurements: Page: 47.6 x 31.1 cm (18 3/4 x 12 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Gallery 231 - Native North American Works on Paper Rotation opening date: 2019-09-02T04:00:00 Gallery 231 - Native North American Works on Paper Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 2, 2019-August 21, 2020). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA 1982: North American Indian Watercolors, January 12-April 11. 1982, no catalogue --- PROVENANCE Purchased from The Spanish and Indian Trading Co., Santa Fe, N.M. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Katsinas are the sacred spirit essences of things in the natural world—plants, animals, clouds, and many others. Central to the religion of the Indian pueblos (villages) of the southwest, katsinas are personified by costumed men in dances during the ceremonial season. This painting seems to depict the “dolls” that represent katsinas. Such carvings are given to Hopi girls to teach them about the world and their place in it. On the far left are two associated with corn, one male (the Hemis katsina) and the other female (the Hemis Mana katsina). Fred Kabotie, whose native name was Naqavoy’ma, was one of the key artists of the modern school of American Indian painting, which began with the work of self-taught Pueblo artists in the 1910s. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES