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Kathryn Kooyahoema, Hopi Mudhead

Kathryn Kooyahoema
Hopi
Classification
Basket
Dimensions
6 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. (16.5 x 16.5 x 3.8 cm)
Accession Number
2018.35.35.332
Credit
Gift of Carol and Don Tallman
Biography
Kooyahoema learned to weave from her mother and grandmother. “The learning process started when I was really young. My mother was always weaving, and they used to have basket-making parties. I’d pick up their scraps and mimic them. That’s where the learning process starts. … Then, as I got more into it, I would sit down with my mother, and she began to teach me how to strip, how to gather the materials, how to color the material.”

Kooyahoema weaves many baskets for ceremonial purposes. She is a member of the women’s order in charge of the Basket Dance and participates in an adulthood ceremony in which young women are taught to weave. She is also teaching her 12 goddaughters to weave.
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/magazines/kathryn-kooyahoema-preserving-an-endangered-art/article_f443ebbc-013e-11e3-a35a-001a4bcf6878.html
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