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“Badger Kachina”
(Healer)
by Jonathan Day, Hopi
Description: Made with cottonwood and acrylic paint
About this Award: Awarded to acknowledge excellence in katsina doll carving
Jurors’ Comments:
Pam Lujan-Hauer: The motion, and it’s all carved from one piece. It’s beautifully done, and very traditional; my first katsina was a Badger Katsina—protection.
Anthony Lovato: I picked this piece because it has a lot of detail in the carving. It’s out of one piece of cottonwood. The Badger is a traditional Hopi katsina, which, as Pam just said, is of strength and protection. It’s also got tobacco, (Pam Lujan: Mm-hmm, he’s a medicine man) to bring on the clouds for the rain. So it represents quite a lot of things in just one piece.
Bruce Bernstein: You get the feeling that this was exactly something that the carver saw one day. It’s like a photograph, in that he has seen something and through his mind’s eye, recreated it, and shared it with us.
Jonathan Day