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OOAK Large Kachina Dolls Chess Set

Handcrafted by American Indians artists of the Southwest using materials indigenous to that area. Mainly carved of roots of the cotton-tree and dressed and decorated using sheep skin, feathers and more. Features many aspects of life, art and culture of Hopi, Navajo and Zuni Indians of today and ancient past. Including figures such as Sunface, Mudhead, Crow, Owl, Wolf, Bear, Broadface, etc.

Kachina dolls are figures carved, typically from cottonwood root, by Hopi people to instruct young girls and new brides about katsinas or katsinam, the immortal beings that bring rain, control other aspects of the natural world and society, and act as messengers between humans and the spirit world.

Colorful, faithfully guardians of life and culture. Several pieces are double; the Bear, Wolf and Owl have removable head-masks and under there is a human. Signed by individual artists.

King is 13" (33 cm)

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