SIO HEMIS katsina Corn kachina (Colton 155) Cottonwood... Lot 40

SIO HEMIS katsina Corn kachina (Colton 155) Cottonwood (Populus Deltoides, also called American poplar), pigments. North America, United States, New Mexico. Wear. H : 26 cm About 1980 Provenance and geographical origin according to the owner: Santa Fe, B.Will Knappen Gallery, acquired in the 1990s. Two commercial statuettes in the Hopi style of Sio Hemis, spirit of the germination of corn, one of the most famous Kachina spirits. Red and blue particolored helmet mask with a large two-register tabletta on a black background, decorated with sky stairs in the lower register, corn symbols separated by a central rainbow in the upper register, and surmounted by three rainbows in directional colors. At the back, the tabletta features a central rainbow framed by two corn symbols supported by two blue and red sky stairs. The body is black, hemi-cylindrical and legless, the arms glued to the torso. The kilt is white, wearing a belt with side scarf.