Polik-mana or Butterfly Maiden is a kachina, or spirit being, in Hopi mythology. Every spring she dances from flower to flower, pollinating the fields and flowers and bringing life-giving rain to the Arizona desert.

Polik-mana or Butterfly Maiden is a kachina, or spirit being, in Hopi mythology. Every spring she dances from flower to flower, pollinating the fields and flowers and bringing life-giving rain to the first, second and third mesa in the Arizona desert.

2024年2月1日 · Polik-mana or Butterfly Maiden is a kachina, or spirit being, in Hopi mythology. Every spring she dances from flower to flower, pollinating the fields and flowers and bringing life-giving rain to the Arizona desert.

This Butterfly Kachina Doll is named for the beautiful butterflies that land on flowers and herbs, Butterfly directs the Medicine Man to ingredients that can be used to make medicine.

Traditionally, the kachina dancers gave children small sculptures of the kachinas during the ceremonies. Parents hang them on the wall at home to use as educational tools for teaching Hopi beliefs to their children. The kachina you see here is known as …

Palhik Mana or Butterfly Maiden is a kachina, or spirit being in Hopi mythology. Every spring she dances from flower to flower, pollinating the fields and flowers, bringing life-giving rain to the Arizona desert.

This is an antique Navajo kachina hand-carved out of a cottonwood representing the Butterfly Maiden of the Hopi Culture. This kachina has been verbally dated to around the 1930s by Mark Bahti of Bahti Indian Arts of Tucson and Santa Fe, paperwork will be included.

The Polikmana or “Butterfly Maiden” kachina is one of the most striking and dramatic of all Hopi kachina depictions and this very large-scale doll is one magnificent big butterfly indeed, with a particularly powerful presence.

The Butterfly Dance, a traditional social dance of the Hopi, is held in August after the gathering of the harvest and presentation of the Snake Dance. It is a thanksgiving dance for the harvest, chiefly for the corn crop and features dancing by young Hopi maidens wearing elaborate tablitas.

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