Ceremonial dance spear head. The long wooden head is made of a single piece of wood, with both sides carved into 6 narrow, protruding, downward pointing blades. The spear’s tip is long and pointed while the head is wide and carved through with a central line and two long holes on either side. Feathers are attached to the head by thongs. The body of the piece, both top and bottom, is painted with white cross-hatching and rust coloured circles.

Arm ring. The ring is made of woven reed and covered with black fibre, mud and white and rust coloured pigment. Several strands of twisted fibre are attached to one part of the ring by a small strip of cotton. The strands are divided into two bunches, each joined at the distal ends with a lump of mud that also holds a feather.

Ring made of woven reed, covered with black, brown and rust fibre. Several areas are covered in mud and a light coloured pigment.. At the back of the ring are several short strands of twisted fibre sealed at the ends with mud. Tan and light pink feathers are attached to several of the strands. To each side of the ring are similar strands but with only a single feather on the right.

Man's neck ornament composed of two narrow panels covered with dark gray and turquoise feathers (it looks like bird skins are sewn to cotton cloth); a front pendant with a hollow bird-bone flute flanked by two small bird bodies and long red Scarlet macaw feathers; and a smaller back pendant made of outspread bird wings surrounded by additional feathers. Each section is attached with a fiber cord. The bird bodies (Cotinga?) on the front pendant are small and flattened with attached feathers in purple, white, turquoise blue, black, gray, and red; the bird bodies are surrounded by six long red Scarlet Macaw feathers, which are decorated with disks of turquoise and dark blue feathers at the tips. The bird body on the back pendant has two outspread black wings, a turquoise feather disk and a small red feather, surrounded by additional blue, yellow and orange feathers. The ornament is worn during a male child's naming ceremony during which the flute is played. Condition: good; one of the turquoise feather disks on the long red Scarlet Macaw feathers is missing.

Brooklyn Museum Collection

A. Augustus Healy Fund

A. Augustus Healy Fund

Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund

This Kachina represents Kokopelli, who has a hump back. He has several functions and appears during Ang'wa, the Kachina night dances held in March during the religious cycle. He appears either by himself or with mixed Kachinas. He represents a fertility spirit, for assisting the growth and sustaining abundant life for all -plants and humans. Normally represented as wearing no clothes as seen here. His penis is normally shown as a mark of respect for his fertility powers. This Kokopelli has the rounded form with a humpback (representing the seeds he carries. Helmet style mask, black with pointed nose, oval eyes open on the sides and dots for eyebrows. PR arm is raised; PL arm has been broken off and pinned back on. His chest and back are primarily yellow with red legs and painted black boots.Orange feathers on top of his head.

Gift of Pratt Institute