Tawa (Sun) Kachina – Antique Print
![Tawa (Sun) Kachina, [1967] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ab/ab2dc8bac941-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Tawa (Sun) Kachina, preserved in this historic drawing. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Tawa (Sun) Kachina
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Tawa, the Sun Kachina, is one of the most widely known figures in the Hopi and Zuni ceremonial world, and this color halftone reproduces a drawing by Gene Meany Hodge made for her 1967 book on kachina dolls. Hodge, who worked from carvings and ceremonial knowledge shared with her, rendered the figure as a frontispiece to introduce readers to the dolls and the folktales attached to them. The plate is worth noticing for its precision as a printed reproduction: it carries the careful line and color of the original drawing, translated through the halftone process used in mid-century book publishing. Kachinas represent spiritual beings in Pueblo belief, and dolls like this one were given to children as teaching objects.
| Created / published | [1967] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone, color. |
| Genre | Drawings Reproductions 1960-1970.Frontispieces 1960-1970.Halftone photomechanical prints Color 1960-1970. |
| Notes | Reproduction of drawing by Gene Meany Hodge. Illus. in: The kachinas are coming ; Pueblo Indian kachina dolls, with related folktales / Foreword by Frederick Webb Hodge ; With 18 color plates of kachina dolls from original drawings by the author. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Northland Press, 1967. Published in: Many nations: A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Indian and Alaska native peoples of the United States / edited by Patrick Frazier and the Publishing Office. Washington : Library of Congress, 1996, frontispiece. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Spiritual life--1960-1970. Zuni Indians--Spiritual life--1960-1970. Kachinas--1960-1970. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,089 × 5,127 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218658 |
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