Kachina

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