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Katsintithu | Homiitsi ~ Warrior Mouse

Date: 1999

Artist or Maker: Armand Fritz

Dimensions:

40.6 x 19.1 x 14 cm (16 x 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)

Medium: wood | paints

Credit Line: Indian Arts Research Center purchase for the permanent collection, 2001.

Object Number: SAR.2001-7-5

Not on view

DescriptionA five-inch eagle carved and painted brown and black with yellowish eyes, beak, and talons sits atop a wooden pinnacle. Nine inches down from the pinnacle is a carved mouse, one and one-half inches tall. There is a black painted stripe across it eyes, a reddish-brown painted stripe across its chest, and a carved, raised quiver case on its back. A carved raised belt and pouch also painted reddish-brown. A snake is painted on the mouse's reddish kilt, which has a thin yellow line outlined in black, with a thin blue line on bottom of kilt. Behind the mouse is a small entrance to its kiva, painted reddish, with rock like squares outlined in black. On the mouse's left is a carved (raised) main entrance into the kiva. A wooden ladder is sticking out of the kiva approx. two inches. One wooden stick is going up through top. One more painted small entrance is in the main part of the wood.

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