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This item SOLD at 2013 Apr 28 @ 14:28UTC-06:00 : CST/MDT
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Hopi White Ogre Kachina - Clark Tenakhongva. Measures 15.5''H x 9.5''W. The feathers on this kachina are a bit tattered which actually adds fierceness to the figure. There are also some spots where the paint is worn. It is hallmarked on bottom for artist Clark Tenakhongva who was born in 1956 and comes from a long line of accomplished Hopi carvers. Clark, along with other young carvers have rekindled the traditional style of Hopi doll carving, like their Grandparents who were actively carving in the early 1900's. These dolls closely resemble those dolls made at the turn of the century. Working in the traditional style, Tenakhongva applies natural pigments and does not use a wood burner. His cylindrical figurines with exaggerated heads represent, in his view, the spiritual intent of the kachina. ''The contemporary dolls are so detailed that they get away from the real meaning of the doll itself,'' he says. ''People refer to kachinas as works of art, but for us they are created for their ceremonial significance. When you do contemporary dolls, you get away from tradition and the original reason they were carved in such a fashion.'' ''Kachinas are the living spirits themselves,'' he points out, ''and the term 'kachina dolls' actually has no meaning. More accurately, what I make is called the 'ti-hu' (tee 'hoo).'' His work bears the Tenakhongva signature trademark of the Rabbit Clan, a rabbit footprint. This is the White Ogre or Whiharu kachina. The Wiharu functions in exactly the same way as the Nataska, only it appears in white. According to Barton Wright, Kachinas: a Hopi Artists Documentary (78), ''The fearsome Nataska always come as a pair. They accompany the Soyoko on their collection trip and usually stand directly behind the member of the crew who is bargaining with the relatives of the children. They are supposed to be able to eat a child whole; from the very earliest age, the child has heard stories of these monsters - how they would descend on children playing near the village and haul them away to cook and eat.'' The White Ogre represents good. He stamps and clacks his large beak as he awaits his food or a chance for a child. He accompanies Soyoko on collecting trips. (Soyoko or Ogre Woman who appears in the evening after the Bean Dance. She visits various houses and asks the boys to hunt game-mice and rats-for her, and threatens that if they do not have some for her in four day's time she will eat them instead. She also requires the girls to prepare paper-thin wafer bread called piki made from blue, yellow, or pink corn meal.) The purpose of these Katsinas is to reinforce the Hopi way of life to the children of the Pueblo. These Ogres accompany Soyoko on her trip to collect food from the children. As a means of discipline, children are told the Ogres can swallow them whole, unless they are good children. The fierce and threatening behavior of these Katsinas strikes fear into the children, but they are eventually saved from imminent danger by the people of their Pueblo.
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