Tasanaiyo (Walpi), A Chief Kachina from First Mesa

c. 1920

Fred Kabotie

Artist, Hopi, 1900 - 1986

Medium

gouache over graphite on wove paper
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Amelia E. White)
Dimensions

image: 25.24 × 12.38 cm (9 15/16 × 4 7/8 in.)
sheet: 39.53 × 27.46 cm (15 9/16 × 10 13/16 in.)
Accession

2015.19.384

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Amelia Elizabeth White, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1937; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1977

Fred Kabotie—Hopi Artist, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff; Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio, 1977-1978

1980

Symbols and Scenes: Art By and About American Indians, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1980 (as "Masked Dancer")

Bibliography

1983

Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 194, no. 1310.

Inscriptions

upper center verso in graphite by unknown hand: Tasanaiyo (Walpi) / A chief Kachina from First Mesa

Wikidata ID

Q64570651