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| DAWN WOMAN of the HOPI, circa 1600-1700 (Effigy) |
 DAWN WOMAN TALA TUMSI OF PO ‘SHWIMKYA
(A CARVED Wooden Effigy of Tala Tumsi, the Dawn Goddess. Set against a Twilled Blue and Brown Manta. The Effigy is Hopi, circa 1600 – 1700. The Twilled Manta isAlso Hopi, circa 1830 – 1850.)
The Hopi people are the direct descendants of the Anasazi, a large, diverse, agrarian culture which inhabited the Four Corners region from 600 to 1300 AD. Among the Anasazi, Carved wooden effigies of female deities were venerated in conjunction with ceremonies, which took place in subterranean buildings known as kivas. In the most basic terms, the kiva was a place where the Anasazi's recreation of their emergence myth took place. In the emergence myth, the Anasazi evolved from a people who lived inside the earth to a people who lived on the earth's surface. The change occurred when the Anasazi emerged from the earth through an opening (or sipapu, as it is called among the Hopi) in the earth's surface.
In the village of First Mesa at Hopi Pueblo, Tala tumsi is worshipped as the goddess of beginnings. As such, she presides over births, initations, weddings, corn pollination and the first light of each day. Her attitude is one of generosity and benevolence. Her only clothing is her necklace of handspun cotton strands, representing the gathering of clouds before a summer rainstorm. No emergence can occur without her blessing. - Joshua Baer
Poster Size: 24 x 36 (inches) - 60.96 x 91.44 (centimeters) |
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