Description
This exquisite Corn Maiden Kachina plays a special role, symbolizing the prayers of the people for a bountiful harvest. The Hopi People tell their stories of the Corn Maidens. She has a gorgeous feather on top of her head and her body depicts a big carved feather. Hair accents her turquoise face. She is 22″ tall” tall and 4 1/4″ wide.
Award winning artist Earl Dino Patterson Jr., also known as Sunaweuma, hails from the Hopi and Navajo tribes of Hotevilla (Third Mesa) on the Hopi reservation in northeastern Arizona, belonging to the Roadrunner and Greasewood clans. This exquisite Kachina, meticulously carved from Hopi cottonwood root, is signed by Earl Dino Patterson (Sunaweuma).
