Hemis Kachina
Signed & numbered Lithograph, edition of 500

One of the most well known kachina dancers of the Hope people of Northern Arizona is the Hemis Kachina. Like all of the Hopi masked dancers, the kachina depicted here is a male Hopi impersonating one of the kachina deities of the tribe. There are some 300 active kachina spirits, each representing a different aspect of the Hopi's relationship with their universe. The Hemis Kachina is most often seen at the Niman or Home Going Ceremony. At sunrise the dancers first enter the plaza bringing entire corn plants, the first corn harvest of the year, and distribute it to the audience. The Niman Ceremony is the last dance in which the kachinas participate until the winter solstice almost six months later. At the close of the ceremony the kachinas leave fore their sacred mountain top home in the San Francisco Peaks some eighty miles east.

Unframed, image size: 12”x 24”: $95.00
Enhanced & Framed, Painted, Glazed & Varnished
~~with Santa Fe distressed, outside dimension 20.5” x 32.5”: 325.00
~~with Italian deluxe, outside dimension 20.75” x 32.75”: $325.00
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.