Tableta
Hopi, ca. 1904
Hopi teenage girls wear these headdresses in the autumn Butterfly Dance.
Their young uncles and nephews make the tabletas, which the girls keep
as mementos of their youth.
On the top of this headdress are birds and sunflowers with a terraced
cloud in the center. Two sun katsinas flank towering clouds and
falling rain. On the reverse side are sun and sunflower designs. All
of these elements are associated with summer rains.
Pine? (Pinus sp.), commercial and mineral paints,
laundry blueing, commercial leather, tanned deer? hide
(Odocoileus sp.), commercial cotton, unidentified
large owl feathers, cotton (Gossypium hirsutum);
W 49.0 x H 44.0 cm; 3165-301