In an important ceremony that closes the sacred Katsina dancing season in July and opens late-summer dances, young, unmarried Hopi women dance in beautifully embroidered dresses and headdresses, like this one. Artists decorate tabletas with symbols, including a stepped motif—at the very top—that represents clouds and farmers’ constant prayer for rain in the Desert Southwest.
- Titles Headdress (Tableta) (Descriptive)
- Artist Hopi Pueblo, Arizona
- Medium wood, paint, string, hair, tanned animal hide
- Dimensions 16 3/4 x 13 x 1/4 in. (42.5 x 33 x 0.6 cm)
- Credit Line Museum purchase with funds provided by the Traditional Arts Acquisition Fund, 1989.52
- Work Type headdress
- Classification Costume
- On View