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
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creation date:			c 1920s
creation date earliest:		1920
creation date latest:		1928
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creditline:			Educational Purchase Fund
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culture:	America, Native North American, Southwest,  Pueblo, (Hopi), Early 20th century
technique:	watercolor
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - American 20th Century
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Fred Kabotie (American, 1900–1986)  - artist

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measurements: Page: 47.6 x 31.1 cm (18 3/4 x 12 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Gallery 231 - Native North American Works on Paper Rotation
	opening date:   2019-09-02T04:00:00
	<i>Gallery 231 - Native North American Works on Paper Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 2, 2019-August 21, 2020).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA 1982: North American Indian Watercolors, January 12-April 11. 1982, no catalogue

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PROVENANCE

	Purchased from The Spanish and Indian Trading Co., Santa Fe, N.M.
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<em>Katsinas</em> 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 <em>Hemis </em>katsina) and the other female (the <em>Hemis Mana </em>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.
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