Letaiyo (Fox) Katsina carving

Medium Specific

Cottonwood

Classification

Sculpture: Wood

Dimensions

3 1/2 x 1 3/4 x 1 1/4 in. (8.9 x 4.4 x 3.2 cm)

Accession Number

2018.35.28.314

Credit

Gift of Carol and Don Tallman

Memo / Artist Statement

Letaiyo or Fox Kachina may appear in the Soyohim dances, but usually he is personated as a runner. He dresses very simply in order that he may run more rapidly. As a Soyohim dancer, he appears in line with the other kachinas. Usually there is a track with only three toes on the cheeks of this kachina.
(https://kachina.us/fox.htm, May 2020)

Inscription

Fox (pen)