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Ahola Katsina for sale.

Item : Ahola

Carver : unknown

Origin : Hopi

Size : 12"

Materials : Wood, yarn, fur and paint.

Ahola is an important chief katsina for both First and Second Mesa as he opens the Powamu ceremony with a kiva performance on the first night.  This performance seems to involve mimetic magic to slow the passage of the sun.  At a shrine in the "Gap" of the First Mesa the next day an additional rite is performed as the sun rises.  With daybreak Ahul (or Ahola) and the Powamu Chief deposits pahos (prayer feathers) at Katsina Spring, for he is the ancient one of the Katsina Clan.  As the ancient one he led the people from the San Francisco Peaks eastward as far as the great river and then westward to where they were stopped by the turbulent waters and where their houses still stand.  After going to the Katsina Spring, Ahola and the Powamu Chief then visit all of the kivas and houses with ceremonial associations, distributing the Powamu Chief's bean and corn plants and marking the entrances with four stripes of meal, thereby appealing to the Cloud Chiefs to sit over these places.  At the end of the ceremony Ahola descends to a shrine where he bows four times to the Sun and asks for a long life, health, happiness and good crops for his children.  

 

About Katsinas: 

Central to Hopi religion, Katsinas are supernatural beings believed to live on the San Francisco Peaks near Flagstaff, Arizona. Hopi men embody the Katsina spirits during ceremonies that take place between Winter Solstice and mid-July. The Hopis believe these spirits enable them to live in harmony with nature, ensuring rain, crops, fertility, and good hunting. The Hopi men embody the spirits of these Katsinas by wearing masks and dancing in the plazas of the villages. The dolls, which are carved replicas of the dancers, are given to the children so that they may learn about their people's traditions. The art of carving Katsina dolls has evolved from the old-style block-like figures into today's highly detailed, all-wood dolls with realistic form and action.

Over time, Katsina Dolls became more and more sophisticated and included bases for the dolls to stand on and showing the Katsina in “action”- such as dancing or hunting. All Katsina Dolls are carved out of the root of the Cottonwood tree. The Cottonwood tree’s vigorous roots travel far and deep in search of water. There is spiritual importance in this fact, as the Hopis are dry farmers in an arid part of Arizona and the search for water is of critical importance to their culture.

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