IDNO

D.19806.

Description

Drawing by a Zuni of a kachina (Cipikne? - Zuni Kachina) wearing a helmet mask with snout, body paint, and kilt and carrying yucca? whips.

Place

N America; United States of America; New Mexico

Cultural Affliation

Native North American; Southwest Indian; Pueblo; Zuni

Named Person

Photographer

Drawn by a Zuni

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1900?

Collection Name

Source

Format

Artwork

Primary Documentation

Other Information

This print was found in envelope marked C88/ by the cataloguer. Prior to re-housing, C88/ contained thirteen photographic prints, two watercolours, one photomechanical print and one colour print, now accessioned as P.28036. to P.28040. and P.19800. to P.198011.

C88/ was previously stored in large wooden drawer I.

Zuni in the Group field refers to the person who did the drawing.

Possibly a Hopi katchina? Paula Fleming, August 1999.

Related Image: A similar series of drawings are held at the National Anthropological Archive, Smithsonian, including one with a similar mask which has the following information:
“Creator: Kutca-Honauu?
Title: Kachina, Cipikne (Zuni Kachina) Wearing Helmet Mask with Snout, Body Paint, and Kilt and Carrying Yucca Whips 1899 Drawing
Contained in: Codex Hopiensis, Hopi Kachinas November, 1899-March, 1900
Phy. Description: 1 leaf 010 in x 008 in Colored pencil graphite and Watercolor drawing in album
Place of creation: New Mexico
Cite as: Manuscript 4731, Smithsonian Institution National Anthropological Archives
Local Notes: Published: Fewkes, Jesse Walter, "Hopi Kachinas Drawn by Native Artists" (Nm, Nov 1899-Mar 1900); BAE 21st AR; Wash; 1903; Pl II, P60
Culture: Hopi; Zuni
Subject-Name: Pamurti Ceremony
Local Number: NAA INV 08547202; NAA MS 4731
Co-Creator: Homovi? creator; White Bear Hopi creator; Winuta Hopi creator
[Source: http://siris-archives.si.edu, JD 6/4/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 16/4/2007]