Hopi Flute Player Kachina Carving, Signed "WC," Contemporary View Watchlist >
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System ID # 28714954
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Hopi Flute Player Kachina Carving, Signed "WC," Contemporary
A tall, slender Flute Player (Lenang or Lenya) kachina figure carved from a single piece of solid wood and finished with detailed hand-painted geometric ornamentation across the entire surface. The carver has stylized the figure into an elongated, almost columnar form — the head canted slightly forward, hair carved in the traditional squared Hopi cut with bangs and shoulder-length sides, face painted turquoise with a black rectangular mouth mask. The robe and kilt are densely patterned with stepped cloud terraces, lightning zigzags, sunbursts, asterisks, dots, and triangular motifs in orange, green, red, teal, black, and cream — a vocabulary drawn from traditional Hopi pottery and textile design. The lower panel depicts a stylized pueblo with ladder and stepped roofline. Mounted on a natural-edge cottonwood root base.
Signed on the underside of the base in black marker "Flute Player / WC." The elongated stylized form and dense surface patterning are consistent with a contemporary carver working in a modernist interpretation of the traditional kachina form rather than a strictly ceremonial style. The Flute Player kachina is associated with the Flute Ceremony and represents fertility, music, and the calling of rain.
CONDITION
Very Good. No remarkable damage. Minor wear to the paint on the hair. Paint is bright and intact across the body; carving is crisp.
DIMENSIONS / SPECIFICATIONS
- Overall: 28" H × 4" W × 4.25" D
- Weight: 1 lb 9 oz
- Material: Solid wood, hand painted
- Signed: "Flute Player / WC" on underside of base
- Campbell's Soup Can (4" H) Shown for Scale — Not Included
