wild currant, rabbit brush stems and yucca leaf

The Yellow Corn Maiden Kachina decorates this wicker basket, distinguished by a yellow face and long hari. Basketry trays are used in the kiva, an underground ceremonial chamber, to hold sacred pollen and prayer sticks, or they may be carried by kackina dancers.
-from the Native American Art from the Permanent Collection catalog, 1976

Sarah Allen and Julia Patzelt, Beyond Appearance: Constructing Likeness (Claremont: Pomona College Museum of Art, 2003), 6 and 8 (illustrated/ color).
Kay Koeninger and Joanne M. Mack, "Native American Art from the Permanent Collection" (Claremont: Galleries of the Claremont Colleges, 1979), 42 (illustrated/bw) fig. 110.

This object has the following keywords:

• Basket Plaques
• Hopi
• Human Figures

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

• Ways of Seeing/Exhibiting American Indian Art: The Pomona College Collection Montgomery Gallery , 1/19/1994 - 3/20/1994

This object has the following bibliographic references:

• Native American Art from the Permanent Collection. Native American Art from the Permanent Collection Galleries of the Claremont Colleges. Claremont, CA, 1979
  Page Number: 42, Figure Number: 110
• Beyond Appearance: Constructing Likeness. Beyond Appearance: Constructing Likeness Pomona College Museum of Art. Claremont, CA, 2003
  Page Number: 6 and 8

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