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Katsina doll
Arizona
Takur Mana Katsina – Yellow Corn Maiden Katsina doll
Hopi
Circa 1930
Carved wood (cottonwood) and pigments
Height: 23.5 cm – 9 ½ in.
Provenance
Ex collection Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986), New Mexico
Ex private collection of a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art since 1970
By family descent
Ex collection Alan Kessler, Santa Fe, USA
Takur Mana Katsina doll 23.5 cm / Galerie Flak
On hold
This carving of a Hopi Maiden is probably Takur Mana (also spelled Takus or Takursh), the Yellow Corn Maiden. In the Hopi pantheon, Takur is the sister of Ma'alo, the Stick Katsina.
This doll was formerly in the collection of Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), a major figure in 20th century American art. O'Keeffe is famous for her paintings of flowers, landscapes of New Mexico, and abstract forms. In the 1930s, she discovered Ghost Ranch near Abiquiú in New Mexico, and her inspiration from then on was fueled by her encounter with the environment and the cultures of the native communities of the region. Georgia O'Keeffe gifted the Katsina doll presented here to a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in thanks for helping her organize a retrospective of her work at the museum in 1970.
This doll was formerly in the collection of Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), a major figure in 20th century American art. O'Keeffe is famous for her paintings of flowers, landscapes of New Mexico, and abstract forms. In the 1930s, she discovered Ghost Ranch near Abiquiú in New Mexico, and her inspiration from then on was fueled by her encounter with the environment and the cultures of the native communities of the region. Georgia O'Keeffe gifted the Katsina doll presented here to a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in thanks for helping her organize a retrospective of her work at the museum in 1970.
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