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Hopi Kachina Dolls
1920 · watercolor
Page: 47.6 x 31.1 cm (18 3/4 x 12 1/4 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Fred Kabotie
Native American, 1900
WA-00027796
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Fred Kabotie was a Hopi painter who developed a distinctive approach to representing Hopi ceremonial life and cultural narrative through watercolor and tempera. Working from the early twentieth century through the 1980s, he created a visual record of katsina dances, pueblo architecture, and spiritual practices with anthropological precision balanced against formal pictorial sensitivity. His work established a foundational model for Native American easel painting that integrated ethnographic documentation with individual artistic voice.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 27d ago
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- Cleveland Museum of Art1 published
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- 1920 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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