Hopi Hemis Kachina

Hand-Carved and Painted Hopi Hemis (Niman) Kachina. He wears a towering stepped tableta painted in turquoise, yellow, and orange, with a ruff of spruce at the neck and spruce boughs at the waist, and holds a rattle in his right hand and a sprig of spruce in his left. Associated with fertility and the growth of crops, Hemis is one of the principal kachinas of the Niman, or Home Dance, held in midsummer, when the kachinas bring the first green corn and offer prayers for rain and a good harvest before returning to their home in the San Francisco Peaks.

7” Doll Height, 10.75” Overall Height