A Hopi Polychrome Wood Kachina Doll, probably depicting Lenya

or Flute, appears in Mixed Kachina Dance, finely carved with a stylized and elongated body, with cut-away arms, standing on squat legs, carrying a pair of drumsticks, wearing an embroidered cloth sash tied at the waist, the case mask painted with a triangular mouth and rectangular eyes, one blue and one yellow, the back, with a rectangular wood panel, possibly a shield or cradle board, trimmed with red-dyed horsehair.

Acquired Hopi Reservation, Third Mesa, Arizona

Fred Harvey Collection

Acquired in 1919,  Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, Smithsonian Institution, 9/0979

Deaccessioned via exchange with Julius Carlebach April 24, 1946

Acquired from the above

Very good original condition with minor wear consistent with its age.
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