Name: Hopi Carved Butterfly Sunface
SKU: Virgil Long--7666
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Hopi Carved Butterfly Sunface

$250.00

Hopi Carved Butterfly Katsina Sculpture

Hopi Carved Butterfly Katsina Sculpture by Virgil Long. Butterfly Maiden Dancer. The Butterfly Dance is a harvest thanksgiving dance. This sculpture shows the Sunface shining in a summertime sky over the pueblo.

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Hopi Carved Butterfly Sunface

Hopi Carved Butterfly Katsina Sculpture

Native American Hopi Carved Butterfly Maid Sculpture by Virgil Long

Hopi Carved Butterfly Sunface. Palhik Mana is a Butterfly Maiden; not a Katsina, but a woman dancer. She generally appears in August, as that is when the butterflies appear. The Butterfly Dance, a traditional social dance of the Hopi, is held in August after the gathering of the harvest and presentation of the Snake Dance. It is a thanksgiving dance for the harvest, chiefly for the corn crop, and features dancing by young Hopi women. This particular maid has her hair down which means she is a married woman.

This sculpture shows the Sunface shining in a summertime sky over the pueblo.

Dimensions:

12 in. tall

SKU

Virgil Long–7666

Hopi Katsinam are crafted to acknowledge celestial beings, significant animals to the Hopi people, and the ancestors who help with their harvest, raising their spirits as well as raising their children. The Hopi people believe that the Katsina dancers possess supernatural powers, though they are men from the village wearing masks and feathered costumes.

There are hundreds of Hopi Katsinam, “personations” of supernatural beings, important animals and ancestors who help the Hopi people raise their crops, their children, and their spirits. The Katsina dancers are men wearing masks–each of which represents a particular Katsina–and paint and feathered costumes. Everyone in the village, aside from the children, knows that the Katsina dancers are actually men from the village, though Katsinam are still believed to have supernatural powers. Much of the value in these dances is found to be instructing the young. Hand carved and collector items. Signed and numbered.

All his carvings are Signed and numbered.

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