Name: Hummingbird Kachina by Sammie Walker
SKU: Sammie Walker--7306
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Hummingbird Kachina by Sammie Walker

Hummingbird Kachina by Sammie Walker (Navajo-Hopi)

The Hummingbird Kachina is a brilliant impersonator during winter and spring dances. The Kachina bobs and calls like a bird while it moves with great speed.

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Hummingbird Kachina by Sammie Walker

Native American Made Hummingbird Dancer Katsina Doll by Sammie Walker (Navajo-Hopi)

The Hummingbird Kachina is a brilliant impersonator during winter and spring dances. The Kachina bobs and calls like a bird while it moves with great speed. He may also appear as a runner because he moves fast enough to catch an individual and whip him with his decorative staff. The action is wonderful and the carving, painting and details are very accurate.

Dimensions:

17.5 in. tall

SKU

Sammie Walker–7306

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.

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