Tile with One-Legged Katsina
Artist Unknown; Hopi
Description
Subject Matter:
Ceramic tile with Katsina. Katsinam (the plural of katsina) are ancestral spirit beings in the Puebloan religion, especially as practiced among the Hopi and A:shiwi (Zuni) peoples. There are more than 500 katsinam who interact with humans in these complex ceremonial cycles.
Physical Description:
Light brown ceramic rectangular tile with a human-esque figure on the front in darker brown and red. Small hole pierced at the top and the bottom edges.
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