Ahote or Ahoote (Spring Thunder Storm Kachina)
Signed & numbered Lithograph, edition of 1000

This powerful figure is one of the most striking Hopi kachina dancers. This kachina is named for the call he makes and it is primarily his songs that account for his popularity. Part of the imagery of this kachina's mask is contained in the circular symbols between his eyes and forehead, which are representative of flowers. This dancer is a forecaster of the coming spring and a change in weather. Ahote carries the bow and arrow inferring that he also has powers in the hunt or even in warfare. The shell ornamentation and the parrot feathers indirectly symbolize the tribes migrations to the four corners of the land and directly illustrate trading practices that reached both coastal and southern Mexican tribes. Ahote is a Plaza Dancer and usually dances in a group.



Unframed, image size: 18”x 36”: $195.00
Enhanced & Framed, Painted, Glazed & Varnished
~~with Santa Fe distressed, outside dimension 26.5” x 44”: $550.00
~~with Italian deluxe, outside dimension 29” x 47”: $750.00

My enhanced lithographs are selected from the above edition. Each is mounted, painted, varnished, glazed and hand textured by the artist to look, feel smell and taste like the original. It is then framed with a 3” single piece hand wrapped linen liner surrounded by either a distressed 2” moulding from Santa Fe or a 3” Italian moulding. Each is signed and numbered as enhanced on the back.