Skip Navigation

Collection Menu
Hopi Pueblo. <em>Kachina Doll (Koyala)</em>, late 19th century. Wood, pigment, 11 × 3 1/2 × 3 3/16 in. (27.9 × 8.9 × 8.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund, 04.297.5525. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 04.297.5525_transp6241.jpg)
Hopi Pueblo. Kachina Doll (Koyala), late 19th century. Wood, pigment, 11 × 3 1/2 × 3 3/16 in. (27.9 × 8.9 × 8.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund, 04.297.5525. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 04.297.5525_transp6241.jpg)
Hopi Pueblo. <em>Kachina Doll (Koyala)</em>, late 19th century. Wood, pigment, 11 × 3 1/2 × 3 3/16 in. (27.9 × 8.9 × 8.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund, 04.297.5525. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 04.297.5525_transp6241.jpg)

Hopi Pueblo. Kachina Doll (Koyala), late 19th century. Wood, pigment, 11 × 3 1/2 × 3 3/16 in. (27.9 × 8.9 × 8.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund, 04.297.5525. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 04.297.5525_transp6241.jpg)

Hopi Pueblo. <em>Kachina Doll (Koyala)</em>, late 19th century. Wood, pigment, 11 × 3 1/2 × 3 3/16 in. (27.9 × 8.9 × 8.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund, 04.297.5525. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.04.297.5525_front.jpg)

Hopi Pueblo. Kachina Doll (Koyala), late 19th century. Wood, pigment, 11 × 3 1/2 × 3 3/16 in. (27.9 × 8.9 × 8.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund, 04.297.5525. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.04.297.5525_front.jpg)

Hopi Pueblo. <em>Kachina Doll (Koyala)</em>, late 19th century. Wood, pigment, 11 × 3 1/2 × 3 3/16 in. (27.9 × 8.9 × 8.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund, 04.297.5525. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 04.297.5525_acetate_bw.jpg)

Hopi Pueblo. Kachina Doll (Koyala), late 19th century. Wood, pigment, 11 × 3 1/2 × 3 3/16 in. (27.9 × 8.9 × 8.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund, 04.297.5525. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 04.297.5525_acetate_bw.jpg)

Hopi Pueblo. <em>Kachina Doll (Koyala)</em>, late 19th century. Wood, pigment, 11 × 3 1/2 × 3 3/16 in. (27.9 × 8.9 × 8.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund, 04.297.5525. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.04.297.5525_back.jpg)

Hopi Pueblo. Kachina Doll (Koyala), late 19th century. Wood, pigment, 11 × 3 1/2 × 3 3/16 in. (27.9 × 8.9 × 8.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund, 04.297.5525. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.04.297.5525_back.jpg)

Hopi Pueblo. <em>Kachina Doll (Koyala)</em>, late 19th century. Wood, pigment, 11 × 3 1/2 × 3 3/16 in. (27.9 × 8.9 × 8.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund, 04.297.5525. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.04.297.5525_detail.jpg)

Hopi Pueblo. Kachina Doll (Koyala), late 19th century. Wood, pigment, 11 × 3 1/2 × 3 3/16 in. (27.9 × 8.9 × 8.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund, 04.297.5525. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.04.297.5525_detail.jpg)

DOWNLOAD

Kachina Doll (Koyala)

Arts of the Americas

CULTURE Hopi Pueblo
MEDIUM Wood, pigment
  • Possible Place Made: First Mesa, Arizona, United States
    • DATES late 19th century
    DIMENSIONS 11 × 3 1/2 × 3 3/16 in. (27.9 × 8.9 × 8.1 cm)  (show scale)
    COLLECTIONS Arts of the Americas
    ACCESSION NUMBER 04.297.5525
    CREDIT LINE Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund
    CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Painted Koshare clown kachina doll with a sad face. During ceremonies clowns provide much fun and merriment but they also do personify supernatural beings and serve an important social function. They serve as every person’s social conscious and are quick to ridicule and point out transgressions through their antics. No one is safe from their ridicule Hopi and non-Hopi individuals alike.
    MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
    CAPTION Hopi Pueblo. Kachina Doll (Koyala), late 19th century. Wood, pigment, 11 × 3 1/2 × 3 3/16 in. (27.9 × 8.9 × 8.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund, 04.297.5525. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 04.297.5525_transp6241.jpg)
    IMAGE overall, 04.297.5525_transp6241.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
    "CUR" at the beginning of an image file name means that the image was created by a curatorial staff member. These study images may be digital point-and-shoot photographs, when we don\'t yet have high-quality studio photography, or they may be scans of older negatives, slides, or photographic prints, providing historical documentation of the object.
    RIGHTS STATEMENT Creative Commons-BY
    You may download and use Brooklyn Museum images of this three-dimensional work in accordance with a Creative Commons license. Fair use, as understood under the United States Copyright Act, may also apply. Please include caption information from this page and credit the Brooklyn Museum. If you need a high resolution file, please fill out our online application form (charges apply). For further information about copyright, we recommend resources at the United States Library of Congress, Cornell University, Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums, and Copyright Watch. For more information about the Museum's rights project, including how rights types are assigned, please see our blog posts on copyright. If you have any information regarding this work and rights to it, please contact copyright@brooklynmuseum.org.
    RECORD COMPLETENESS
    Not every record you will find here is complete. More information is available for some works than for others, and some entries have been updated more recently. Records are frequently reviewed and revised, and we welcome any additional information you might have.
    Hopi Pueblo. <em>Kachina Doll (Koyala)</em>, late 19th century. Wood, pigment, 11 × 3 1/2 × 3 3/16 in. (27.9 × 8.9 × 8.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Expedition 1904, Museum Collection Fund, 04.297.5525. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 04.297.5525_transp6241.jpg)

    TAGS

    kachina doll
    figure
    Hopi
    Pueblo
    Southwest
    Native American
    wood
    clown
    man
    devil
    demon
    doll
    american
    19th century
    horns
    sad
    frown
    striped
    black and white
    black
    white
    red
    kachina
    Crazy Eyes
    Stripes
    Ears
    mime
    koshare

    TAGS

    kachina doll
    figure
    Hopi
    Pueblo
    Southwest
    Native American
    wood
    clown
    man
    devil
    demon
    doll
    american
    19th century
    horns
    sad
    frown
    striped
    black and white
    black
    white
    red
    kachina
    Crazy Eyes
    Stripes
    Ears
    mime
    koshare

    RELATED OBJECTS

    Hammerstone Model of Loom Dough Bowl Olla or Jar Kachina Doll (Kyanaque Kahana) Kachina Doll (Tsaveyo) Kachina Doll (Ainshi Koko) Sugar Bowl with Lid Spoon Compote (George Peabody) Mug (George Peabody) Burial Urn with Male Effigy Figure Tray or Waiter Scrimshaw, Whales Tooth Scrimshaw, Whales Tooth Blue and Black Kilt Household Box Representing Killer Whale (Taod) Crucifix Tray Cane Medallion Mask for the Okuyi Society (Mukudj) Zamble Helmet Crest Mask Gelede Mask Mask Bush Cow Mask Gelede Mask Mask (Kple-Kple) Mother and Child Figure Kachina Doll (Kwivi Katsina) Tile Tile Tile Tile Tile Tile Tile Tile Tile Kachina Doll (Muya Pona [Clown]) Kachina Doll (Atashlaskja Okya) Kachina Doll (Pika) Kachina Doll (Sa’lakwmana) Kachina Doll (Shalako) Kachina Doll (Omau [Cloud]) Kachina Doll (Tassap [Navajo]) Kachina Doll (Nuvaktsina) Kachina Doll (Shalako Nalena Mana) Ladle Bowl Jar Kachina Doll (Siatasha) Kachina Doll (Zakyalestoy) Kachina Doll (Hakjapa) Kachina Doll (Hilili Kohanna) Kachina Doll (Helele) Kachina Doll (Salamopea Kohana Ansuwa) Kachina Doll (Anahoho)