File:Hopi Katcinas drawn by native artists (1904) (14582601559).jpg

Identifier: cu31924104075365 (find matches)
Title: Hopi Katcinas drawn by native artists
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930 Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956. fmo Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. fmo Huntington Free Library. fmo
Subjects: Kachinas Hopi Indians Hopi mythology
Publisher: Washington : Government Printing Office
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
OWA AND MANA HELIOTVPE CO., BOSTON. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT PL. XXI
Text Appearing After Image:
HELIOTYPE CO., B08T0N. FEWKKS) KATCINAS APPEARING IN POWAMU 83 on the abdomen. Humis carries a rattle in the right hand and a .sprigof pine in the left. A small black stick is tied to his left wrist. The two figures which aciiompany Humis represent Hano clowns,who are accustomed to amuse the audience during the celebration ofthe dances in which he appears. Each clown wears a cap with two straight horns made of leather,with corn husks tied to the tops. The horns are banded alternatelyt)lack and white, as are also the body, arms, and legs. The liyure tothe left has a bowl filled with Hopi wafer bread before him: the oneat the right carries a roll of the same in his right hand. The name Humis is supposed to have been derived from the puebloJemez in New Mexico and to be the same as the Zuiii Hemacikwi,a dance which is ordinarily celebrated in summer. HOPI AA ATC HOTA (Plate XXI) The Hopi Avatc hoja accompanies the Humis katcina, and. as maybe seen by consulting the pictures, differs widel

Note About Images