Angwusnasomtaqa (Crow Mother)
Signed & numbered Lithograph, edition of 500

The Crow Mother appears in the kiva at the Kachina Cult Initiation Ceremony. Here the children are initiated into the Katchina Cult. A major part of this ceremony is when the children are told and shown that the kachina figures they see are not the actual spirits but are men of the village masked and impersonating that spiritual identity. Appearing with the Crow Mother are her two sons, the Hu' Whippers. Each child is whipped four times with yucca lashes as a gesture of purification. When the Hu' are finished with the children, they whip each other and then the Crow Mother lifts her skirts and she also is whipped. The Crow Mother is sometimes called the Crow Bride, Angushahai-I, and as such performs a different ritual from the one just described. This work of art was created solely with a technical pen, utilizing dots and tiny cross hatch lines only in the execution of this figure.

Unframed, image size: 20”x 24”: $95.00
~~Black on gray $ 95.00
~~Hand colored $195.00

Enhanced & Framed, Painted, Glazed & Varnished
~~with Santa Fe distressed, outside dimension 28.5”x 32.5”
~~~~black on gray: $345.00
~~~~hand colored: $445.00
~~with Italian deluxe, outside dimension 28.75”x 32.75"

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.Signed & numbered Lithograph, edition of 500