The buckle and conchos are decorated with traditional Hopi overlaid bear design elements featuring weather symbols on each bear
A similar sandpainting design would be created by a Navajo medicine man during a healing ceremony
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the maximum length is 37”
Bead Diameter: 9mm
Hopi Night Dance Painting material_charoite The buckle and conchos areFramed oil on canvas painting by Hopi artist Neil David Sr., painted in the 1990s, depicting a Hopi Night Dance with Kachinas emerging from a kiva under a dark night sky. The scene includes Mudheads, Broadfaced Whippers, a Hopi priest, and Hano Mana, also known as the Tewa Maiden, shown with bean sprouts. Hopi Night Dances, or Angkwa, are early Kachina season ceremonies held in the kivas, and the inclusion of Hano Mana and bean sprouts connects the