Hopi Muzribi Kachina

$950.00

Muzribi (Bean) Kachina, with a symbolic bean sprout painted around his face, appears during the Bean Dances in February, at the beginning of the ceremonial year. He helps he sacred bean sprouts to grow, and prays for bountiful and successful crops in the coming year to feed the Hopi people. Circa 1920s, made of cottonwood painted with white clay and mineral pigments with string and feathers, 5 ¼ inches tall. 

 

Muzribi (Bean) Kachina, with a symbolic bean sprout painted around his face, appears during the Bean Dances in February, at the beginning of the ceremonial year. He helps he sacred bean sprouts to grow, and prays for bountiful and successful crops in the coming year to feed the Hopi people. Circa 1920s, made of cottonwood painted with white clay and mineral pigments with string and feathers, 5 ¼ inches tall.