Butterfly Dance

18 x 24 

This painting commemorates one of the more popular Hopi dances, held on their mesa tops in the spring. Accompanying the lovely carved Butterfly Maiden Kachina is a coiled plaque basket with her image, a similarly decorated rattle, and the wonderful turquoise-dyed deerskin boots, ancient quilled straps intact, for dancing. One can almost hear the drumbeat, and see the dust rise from the plaza…