"The Bee makes rather
casual appearances during the Mixed Kachina Dances or during
the night ritual of the Water Serpent Ceremony. He presumably
dances among the audience, although how anyone could dance through
the tightly packed humanity is hard to imagine.
With a tiny bow and miniature
arrows he either threatens to shoot the spectators or actually
does hit some of them with tiny blunt arrows. In Zuni, when this
personation appears, he brings honey to the children in the audience
in the odd-shaped cups that appear on the top of his head."
- Barton Wright, Kachinas: a Hopi
Artist's Documentary (85)
Delwyn Harvey, "Wea"
(One of a kind), was born on the Hopi reservation in 1965. He
is a member of the Kachina Crow Clan. Delwyn has been carving
Hopi kachinas since 1978. He is a self taught artist.
Delwyn is also related to
Nuvadi Dawahoya (brother-in-law), who is a master carver in his
own right.
Like other contemporary kachina
carvers, Delwyn hand carves cottonwood root into magnificent
full bodied kachina dolls with a simple tool like a pocket knife.
His carvings are carved with extreme precision and detail.
He applies acrylic paints
to his dolls and paints them very carefully because it is essential
for the Hopi people to represent the kachina as accurately as
possible. Many of his dolls are carved from one continuous piece
of cottonwood. Some of his dolls are sought by collectors all
over the world. Delwyn signs his dolls "D. Harvey."
