- Artist:
- Polelonema, Otis
- Title:
- Long Hair Hopi Kachina
- Description:
- A painting of two identical dancers dressed as Hopi Long Hair Kachina facing the viewer. They are wearing a longhair mask, handwoven and embroidered kilts tied with a handwoven black, green and red sash, and dance boots. They are also wearing two large bells tied to their calves just below their left knees and yellow body paint. A fox skin is hanging down the back of their kilts and can be seen behind their legs. They are each wearing a bow guard on their left wrist and holding an evergreen bough in their left hand and a gourd rattle in their right hand. "Hopi Kachinas" is written at the bottom of the painting.
- Subjects:
- Hopi (culture or style)
- Source:
- Zarrow Collection, Oklahoma State University Archives
- Source Identifier:
- jmz.428
- Size:
- image: 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.; framed: 21 1/2 x 19 1/8 in.
- Frame:
- Wood (plant material); Black (color)
- Media:
- Watercolor (paint)
- Signature:
- Otis Polelonema (printed, lower right)
- Condition:
- slight creasing; water staining by the feather of the left figure; staining between the figures' knees; soiling down the right side; conservation mounting; conservation glass
- Provenance:
- Purchased by Jack and Maxine Zarrow from Howard Huston of Hurst, Texas, when he visited Tulsa, OK, June 3, 1996.
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Long Hair Hopi Kachina", The Maxine & Jack Zarrow Collection, Oklahoma State University Archives
- Reference Link:
- https://zarrow.library.okstate.edu/_site/items/jmz.428.html
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