Kachina
Koshare Eating watermelon, Tan body paint with black and white tassles on the their heads. They are eating watermelon. The pair seem mass-produced and identical in all ways except in size.
- Object: Kachina
- Artist: Fletcher Healing
- Circa: -
- Dimensions: -
- Culture Area: southwest
- Cultural Group: Hopi
- Cultural Context: A type of clown kachina, they entertain the audience during breaks in the ceremonies and comically illustrate wrong behaviors as a social lesson. Koshare will interact directly with the audience, often mocking them and dragging them into skits.
- Donor: Carey M. Vanderkar
- Catalog #: 110.038