Hi guys! I found a Hope Kachina doll today, and the information online about these things is overwhelming. I don't know if what I have was made recently or of it is older. Here is a pic of the doll + the bottom: http://tinypic.com/r/jb00g5/6
The markings on the bottom say "Kachina-Maid" and "3.00" written what I assume is pencil. There is also a "sun" stamp (Abbott Sakiestewa?). The doll is in relatively good condition. Minor paint loss. Some wear on the ears (one has a thin crack between the ear and the head, but I put some super glue between it because I did not want it to fall off).
Does anyone have any information about this particular doll and its age/worth?
Thanks in advance!
Hey. I bought this from a friend last year, but she didn't have any information about it. It appears to be a kachina of some sort, but I was wondering if anyone knew which one. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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My boyfriend and I moved into a new home at the beginning of the pandemic (April 2020). Upon moving in, all boxes were placed in the garage and the only things in the house were the largest pieces of furniture (sofas, coffee tables, beds, and a piano).
The house had a wonderfully lit display case and I decided to unpack the “precious items” box so that I could spend the evening placing each delicate item in the display case and then sit and enjoy it with my boyfriend.
When I opened the box, I was devastated to see that my “mother crow” Kachina doll had lost half of her crow feathers (they were made of wood and she had huge feather pieces that enveloped each side of her head - a right side and a left side). Worse yet: the missing crow feathers for the right side of her head weren’t with the packaging even though I had packed her as a whole piece. I found this supremely odd as I packed the piece myself and, even if it had broken off during packing and the move, I would’ve expected to find the broken pieces with the packaging… but I couldn’t find it anywhere.
I told my boyfriend and we both began looking in the box and on the floor for it. After intense searching, we were both completely at a loss for where it could’ve gone to. We looked all over the house (which was silly because it was completely empty except for our large pieces of furniture) and found nothing.
We checked the box it came in again… and nothing. It was absolutely no where to be found. During this time we were both up and moving around and neither of us ever found it.
After a while we gave up, sat on the couch, and lamented the loss. It was a gorgeous, authentic, Zuni piece, representing the mother of creation. He had given it to me for my birthday and I cherished it. We both took it as a bad sign that it had not only broken during the move but that we couldn’t even fix it because we couldn’t find the missing piece anywhere.
We had some whiskeys, talked of other things, and went to bed.
The next day we enter the living room and see the missing feather piece for mother crow placed in easy view on top of the armrest of the couch (a spot we were both around, a lot, the night before). And somehow, the next morning , it’s suddenly just right there and absolutely impossible to miss.
Neither one of us could believe it. There is no way it was there the night before and neither one of us placed it there. The house was virtually empty so
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