Mask representing Heheya - Hopi culture, Arizona - Circa 1920-1930

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Mask representing Heheya - Hopi culture, Arizona - Circa 1920-1930

Name: Mask representing Heheya - Hopi culture, Arizona - Circa 1920-1930
Brand: Antikeo
SKU: Z7PO78PRJW
Price: 8000 EUR
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Period 20th century

Style Tribal Art

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Mask representing Heheya
The Kachina, messenger of the rain gods
Hopi culture, Arizona
Circa 1920-1930
Leather, wood, horsehair, plant fibers, and pigments
H: 33 cm; W: 44 cm

Helmet-shaped mask made of leather decorated with polychrome pigments. Heheya is recognizable by his blue-green mask, his attached wooden ears, his mouth made of a cloth roll, and his schematic nose—probably an ear of corn covered in cotton. These latter elements are all pigmented red—a color also used to outline the circular eye sockets. From the top of his nose to his cheeks, an inverted blue triangle is painted.

The lower edge of the mask has a rigid structure made of braided plant fibers—the remaining cords indicate its function: to support the deity's attire. On the reverse, the important symbol of the sacred calendar, also called the horizon calendar, from the mesa dances is painted in red ochre and black on a white background.

Heheya, the kachina messenger of the rain gods, appears at the third mesa.

Illustrative image: Hopi rain ceremony, Shungopavi village, Arizona, USA, circa 1870-1900.

Ref.: 6682

Ref: Z7PO78PRJW

Additional Information

Condition	Very good
Style	Tribal Art (Native North American Art of Tribal Art Style)
Period	20th century (Native North American Art 20th century)
Country of origin	United States