**Originally Listed At $300**

Native American, Southwestern United States, Hopi & Sine (Navajo), ca. late 20th to 21st century CE. A pair of hand carved wood Kachina dolls covered in rabbit fur, feathers, leather, and yarn. One represents an owl and is signed by Hopi artist Raphael Sarracino and the other is a wolf dancer with a bow and arrow in his hands and signed by Dine artist R. Platero. The Katsinam, supernatural beings who live in the high mountains of the San Francisco Peaks above traditional Hopi territory, speak to the Hopi through costumed dance and song. These dancers emerge from the round ceremonial kivas that are at the center of their communities, singly or in groups, and dance to the music of drums, rattles, and song. Katsina figures (katsina dolls, katsin-tihu), are made of cottonwood root to represent these supernatural beings. Size of wolf: 8" W x 13.5" H (20.3 cm x 34.3 cm)

Provenance: private Lumberton, Texas, USA collection, acquired before 2010

All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back.

A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids.

We ship worldwide to most countries and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience.

#169390

Draying and bending to feathers on owl, and losses to implements in his hands. Wolf kachina is intact and very good. Both are signed on the base.