This dance is not as common
as it might have been at one time, and according to Barton Wright's
Kachinas: a Hopi Artist's Documentary, you might have the satisfaction
of occassionally seeing a performance "in one of the night
ceremonies in March or during the Powamu."
"Usually the personator
imitates the step or motion and cry of the eagle to absolute
perfection. There is evidence that this kachina was imported
into Zuni from the Hopi and is danced there in much the same
manner that it is at Hopi.
This may be why the Eagle
may appear during Pamuya on First Mesa with Zuni Kachinas."
(87)
Kerry Lyle David is from Walpi
on First Mesa. He is about 40 years old. He has been carving
kachina dolls for about 30 years, yet he has been carving one-piece
kachina dolls only since about 1985.
Kerry uses only hand tools
in making his carvings. He credits his skill to the teachings
of his grandfather, Abbott, his father, Leslie, and his uncle,
Gorman David. And he says he has also been influenced a lot by
his uncle, Neil David, Sr., and from watching other master carvers
such as Cecil Calnimptewa and Lowell Talashoma, Sr.
His inspiration, however,
always comes from watching the Kachinas in the dances.
Kerry and his work are featured
in Theda Bassman's Hopi Kachina Dolls and their Carvers, Helga
Teiwes' Kachina Dolls, The Art of Hopi Carvers, and The Hopi
Approach to the Art of Kachina Doll Carving by Erik Bromberg,
among others.