Hopi Native American Kachina Doll Full Figure Badger by Marlon Huma

Description

Native American Hopi Carved Badger Healer Katsina Doll by Marlon Huma
The Badger (
Honan
) has great knowledge of roots and herbs and is sought for his wisdom and his ability to cure the sick by using herbal potions. The Badger Katsina appears in the summer dances. He is not only a healer and a chief; he also dances for rain for the crops. He appears at all three Mesas.
The Badger (Honan) has great knowledge of roots and herbs and is sought for his wisdom and his ability to cure the sick by using herbal potions. The Badger Katsina appears in the summer dances. He is not only a healer and a chief; he also dances for rain for the crops. He appears at all three Mesas.
Dimensions:
9 in. tall
This wonderful carving by Marlon Huma shows the Badger from Second Mesa dancing, wrapped in a manta to keep warm, in the cold desert mornings. 9.75" Tall by Brandon Twoitsie
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, perseverance
Bear (west)—healer, strength, introspection
Buffalo—strength, endurance to rise above one’s weaknesses Butterfly--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 world
Eagle (zenith or sky)—spirit, a connection to the
Divine Hawk—see things differenlty,
Change Owl—wise, smart, patient, the unseen
Raven—healer
Snake—a force in life, death and rebirth
Wolf (east)—teacher, pathfinder on the journey of survival, familly
Please be assured that these wonderful pieces will be shipped at around the .00-.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.