Susie Lomatska
Kwahu / Eagle
9 1/2"
H with 1 1/2" base
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)
Susie Lomatska Long was born
in Hotevilla, AZ, in November, 1953, and lives on a ranch north
of Kykotsmovi, Arizona - once owned by her late uncle Dan Evehewa,
co-auhor of the book Hotevilla, for which Susie did the Hopi-English
interpreting. She loves to carve and lives on the ranch with
her husband and two children.
