A large scale grandmother doll, standing on diminutive legs with bent arms held to the front in typical dancing posture. Wearing traditional black dress and white manta; her broad face with naturalistic features, including long nose and perpendicular brow overhanging close-set eyes, hair whorls attached to either sie. 

She appears as a principal actor in the Water Serpent Ceremony and at other dances, such as the Niman Kachina Dance. 

height 13 1/2 inches

Circa 1910-1920

Provenance:

Christie’s, New York, Important American Indian from A Private Western Collection, 12 January 2006, lot 33

Emily Fisher Landau, New York, NY

Sotheby’s New York, Fine American Indian Art, December 4, 1997, lot 62

Sotheby’s New York, Fine American Indian Art, November 28, 1989, lot 43

Traphagan School of Fashion, New York, NY

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