**Originally Listed At $400**

Native American, Southwestern USA, Arizona or New Mexico, Hopi Peoples, ca. 20th century CE. "Takursh Mana" by Emory or Emery Pohuma (Hopi, 1917 to 1999). Painted wood. Inscribed "Takursh / Mana" on underside of right foot and "E. Pohuma" on left. An excellent, hand-carved wood Kachina doll of Takursh Mana or Yellow Corn Maiden or Woman depicted standing, draped in a white and red cloth, and adorned in pigments of black, white, scarlet, emerald, yellow, and teal. Wearing black string tied to each wrist, the maiden faces forwards, holding out instruments for creating multitoned sounds: a hollowed-out gourd with a notched stick in her left hand and a spatula in her right. A helmet-like headdress capped by liberal remains of white feathers crowns her head, framing her simple visage which displays only rectangular eyes. Her body is covered by a knee-length robe with a decorative belt at the waist and sizeable, white boots. Size (without cape): 5.4" W x 14.2" H (13.7 cm x 36.1 cm); (with cape): 8.8" W (22.4 cm)

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Provenance: ex-private Bishop Family Trust collection, the Trust of the late Bill Bishop, a noted antiquarian with shops in Scottsdale, Arizona and Allenspark, Colorado, USA, acquired before 2010

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Left forearm reattached with break line visible. Stable hairline surface fissures to head. Otherwise, nicely preserved with liberal remains of feathers.