Long-haired Kachina - Angak'Tsina - Lot 34

Long-haired Kachina - Angak'Tsina Hopi, Arizona Cottonwood root, pigments, feathers H. 21 cm (without base and feathers) 1930's Provenance : - Théry Atchévinsky Collection, given as a gift by Harold L. Ickes (1874-1952), U.S. Secretary of State under President Franklin D. Roosevelt - Néret-Minet sale, Drouot, Paris, March 25, 2003, lot 50 - Collection Léo Scheer & Nathalie Rheims, acquired at the above sale Identifiable by its long hair falling to the middle of its back and its black beard topped by a series of multicolored squares representing a rainbow, this figure represents the Angak'Tsina spirit, the Long-Haired Kachina. The Hopis used to dance her in the hope of heavy rain. During ritual processions, the long-haired dancers sang harmoniously to invoke the end of the dry season. The Kachina presented here exudes a sense of power tinged with poetry.