Bequest of W.S. Morton Mead

Hide tipi bag with beaded front design of crosses, centered in two turquoise bands edged with yellow. The sides have inset beadwork with tin cones inserted with red fabric tassels.

Charles Stewart Smith Memorial Fund

This is a dark blue wool cloth dress with three bands of ribbon trim, red and white, along the bottom hem and sleeves. Individual teeth are tied in a yoke pattern on the front and back of the dress. The dress has rows and circles of brass and tin sequins on the skirt. Purple, ribbed silk binds the neck. The bottom hem has geometric cut edge so that it dips lower on each side than the front and back, a reference to historical hide dresses where the legs of the animal would be kept and oriented to the sides of the dress.

Kachina doll dressed with a black cape, tall boots, cloth skirt.

This kachina is wearing a long, painted dress, tall hide boots. He is carrying a bow and a small, striped bag in his proper left hand.

This is a mudhead kachina doll.

This is a good example of the striped shirts worn. The sides could have been tied together. Although called a child's poncho it could very well have been made for a small man.

This kachina doll represents one of the group of mud head kachinas who participate in dances as clowns that teach about proper behavior. There are usually ten clowns in the dance.(missing 9ne ear although early photos show it so may be in the triage area tray.)

This is a mudhead clown kachina with no wool neck collar and but does have a wool skirt. It is the far right kachina in the photograph.HAs deeply carved mouth and ears. Koyemshi Kachina (Mudhead) Clowns Koyemshi Kachinas, or Mudheads were created when the Zuni first entered the world. One brother and sister had improper relations so their ten children became Mudheads. Each Mudhead exhibits behavior opposite to what their name is. Thus “The Aged One” acts like a child, “The Invisible One,” thinks he is hiding if he only holds up a feather in front of his face, while the all-important “Speaker of the Sun” is really a witless daydreamer and rarely speaks. A troop of ten different Mudhead Kachinas appear in most Zuni ceremonies performing outrageous behaviors and interacting with the audience, making them laugh but also making people realize how wrong such behavior really is as the clowns are eventually chased away.