Hopi Corn Prayer

This piece is a Kachina spirit dancing for a good corn harvest. He holds a prayer stick and a corn rattle in his hands and has turtle rattles tied to his legs. There are two disk plates on his chest, one representing the world and the other representing Spider Grandmother. On each side of his legs are corn spirits and he is flanked by a snake and an ant playing the flute. He is surrounded by Pueblos housing rain clouds and the four strains of corn grown by the Hopi (two yellow, one white and one blue). There are two sun patterns above him. 

This piece was painted in Oraibi, Arizona and is now in Shediac, New Brunswick. The Hopi ceremonial Kachina costumes are considered to be some of the most beautiful indigenous costumes in the world. The Hopi almost make Kachina dolls that are highly sought after as well.