Katsina Depictions on Homol'ovi Ceramics: Toward a Fourteenth-Century Pueblo Iconography

Hays, Kelley Ann

doi:10.1080/00231940.1989.11758123

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“…The design styles on Hopi Sikyatki (Figure 11) and Zuni Matsaki polychromes (Smith et al 1966) are characterized by quasi-representational designs that have been associated with katsina iconography (Adams 1991;Hays 1989). The introduction into the area of new symmetries as well as representational images (Washburn 2006b) suggests that groups of people with new ritual complexes may also have been moving into the area, most probably from Mesoamerica (Schaafsma 1994).…”

Section: The Anasazi Sequencementioning

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A Symmetry Analysis of Design Structure: 1,000 Years of Continuity and Change in Puebloan Ceramic Design

Washburn¹,

Crowe

Ahlstrom³

2010

Am. antiq.

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This paper postulates that cultural entities with long term structural integrity are characterized by symmetrical relationships between and among the constituent sectors of society. We demonstrate how such social relationships are embedded in the symmetrical arrangements of motifs in geometric design. We test this premise with an analysis of 1000 years of ceramic design from the northern American Southwest, AD 600-1600, with a description of the continuities and changes in the plane pattern symmetries that structure design. Two major points of change in symmetry use at c. AD 900 and AD 1300 correlate with changes in settlement type from pithouses to unit pueblos and from unit pueblos to multi-storied plaza oriented pueblos that accompanied adjustments to changes in environmental conditions. We propose that in the American Southwest the predominant use of bifold symmetry is a structural metaphor for the reciprocal social relationships basic to the organization of small puebloan agricultural communities and that the changes in these symmetries reflect the changing integration of the household into an increasingly complex social system. This interpretation of the meaning of design structure is derived from cosmological principles embedded in 20th century ritual songs of the Hopi, descendents of the prehistoric puebloans, as well as depicted in images in their 15th century kiva wall murals. We present this interpretation of the sequence of pueblo development in the American Southwest in terms of the changing symmetrical nature of the social relationships that integrated the agricultural communities as an example of the insights possible with this new approach to design analysis.

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A Symmetry Analysis of Design Structure: 1,000 Years of Continuity and Change in Puebloan Ceramic Design

Washburn¹,

Crowe

Ahlstrom³

2010

Am. antiq.

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“…46 Their presence is intended to inspire people to correct their lifeways, mend material and emotional losses, and work in humility with other members of the community to live a healthy, long life free from suffering and want. Archaeological research attests that the katsinam have been a part of imagery on ceramics and petroglyphs of the Hopi people since at least the thirteenth century (Adams 1991(Adams , 2000Hays 1989;Smith 1952). …”

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Nuvatukya’ovi, San Francisco Peaks

Głowacka¹,

Washburn²,

Richland³

2009

Current Anthropology

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“…2 & 13), including vessels decorated in the Pinedale Style, and stone slabs from eastcentral Arizona (Fig. 14) (Crown 1994;Di Peso 1950;Ferg 1982;Hays 1989). These images bear resemblance to the contemporary Hopi warrior katsinas, Tsakwaina and the similar He'e'e Warrior (P. Schaafsma 1994b, 69).…”

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The Never-Changing and the Ever-Changing: the Evolution of Western Pueblo Ritual

Plog

Solometo

1997

CAJ

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The evolution of Western Pueblo ritual has long been a focus of ethnographic and archaeological research in the American Southwest. Most of these studies emphasize the continuities between the late prehistoric period and the early historic era and highlight the role of katsina ritual in promoting social harmony or controlling weather and fertility. We suggest that a more complete understanding of ritual change during this time span requires a closer examination of the highly dynamic social landscape of the the thirteenth through eighteenth centuries. In particular, we suggest that the increasing evidence for raiding, conflict, and social opposition must be incorporated into new models of social and ritual change.

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Katsina Depictions on Homol'ovi Ceramics: Toward a Fourteenth-Century Pueblo Iconography

Cited by 10 publications

References 4 publications

A Symmetry Analysis of Design Structure: 1,000 Years of Continuity and Change in Puebloan Ceramic Design

A Symmetry Analysis of Design Structure: 1,000 Years of Continuity and Change in Puebloan Ceramic Design

Nuvatukya’ovi, San Francisco Peaks

The Never-Changing and the Ever-Changing: the Evolution of Western Pueblo Ritual

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