Name: Sammie Walker Sunface Katsina
SKU: Sammie Walker-7152
Availability: InStock

Sammie Walker Sunface Katsina

$275.00

Sammie Walker Sunface Katsina

Sunface (Tawa) Katsina represents the spirit of the sun & a powerful Katsinam. This leader of ceremonies brings warmth, shelter for the old, a bright future, and playfulness for the young.

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Sammie Walker Sunface Katsina

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

Sunface (Tawa) Katsina represents the spirit of the sun. This leader of ceremonies brings warmth, shelter for the old, a bright future, and playfulness for the young and is considered one of the more powerful Katsinam because the Sun is thought to be the brightest and largest of all the stars and essential to life and growth. This is a wonderful piece that is created in a style that is unusual today. Very few of the artists make the Native American dolls this way. The carving, painting and details are wonderful on this piece.

Dimensions:

19 in. tall

SKU

Sammie Walker–1664

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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