Hopi Native American Kachina Doll Carved Butterfly

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Hopi Native American Kachina Doll Carved Butterfly:
$450.00

Native American Hopi Carved Butterfly Maiden Doll by Danny Kabinto 17.5\" TallPalhik Mana is a Butterfly Maiden; not a Katsina, but a woman dancer. Though at the dances the Butterfly Maiden is not masked or hooded, she generally appears this way when carved as a doll. Her tablita (headdress) carries symbols for corn and butterflies, which pollinate the corn helping to bring a good harvest. She generally appears in August, as that is when the butterflies appear. The Butterfly Dance, a traditional social dance of the Hopi, is held in August after the gathering of the harvest and presentation of the Snake Dance. It is a Thanksgiving dance for the harvest, chiefly for the corn crop, and features dancing by young Hopi maidens wearing elaborate headdresses.There are hundreds of Hopi Katsinam, \"personations\" of supernatural beings, important animals and ancestors who help the Hopi people raise their crops, their children, and their spirits. The Katsina dancers are men wearing masks--each of which represents a particular Katsina--and paint and feathered costumes. Everyone in the village, aside from the children, knows that the Katsina dancers are actually men from the village, though Katsinam are still believed to have supernatural powers. Much of the value in these dances is found to be instructing the young. Signed and numbered.Badger (south)—healers, aggressiveness, perseveranceBear (west)—healer, strength, introspectionBuffalo—strength, endurance to rise above one’s weaknessesButterfly--Butterfly directs the medicine man to ingredients that can be used in medicine. The Butterfly Kachina brings together unmarried men and women. During the butterfly social dance they appear as a pair, one female and one male.Deer—abundance in the natural worldEagle (zenith or sky)—spirit, a connection to the DivineHawk—see things differenlty, ChangeOwl—wise, smart, patient, the unseenRaven—healerSnake—a force in life, death and rebirthWolf (east)—teacher, pathfinder on the journey of survival, famillyOur website estimates shipping at 18% of the cost of the item. With Full-Figure Hopi Katsinam the amount that shows on the invoice can be quite high. Please be assured that these wonderful pieces will be shipped at around the $50.00-$75.00 range for a single piece. Most of our Hopi are shipped USPS Priority Mail, if we are shipping East of the Mississippi River USPS Express Mail can be the most economical. The United States Post Office does more \"hand-holding\" of these very fragile pieces.

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