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Showing teats of tihu doll at Heart Museum in Phoenix, Arizona
Tihu (a member of the uto-aztec family of languages, hopi (katsin tihu) - figurines made of poplar wood carved and painted to represent Katchina - life-giving figures from the mythology of the Hopi, Zuni and other Pueblo peoples from the Southwestern United States.
Among the Hopes these dolls originally sculpted fathers for their daughters (or their uncles) as a kind of caring talismans, and handed them to masked dancers imitating the Kaczyns during the Spring Bean Dance or Summer Home Dance Ceremony. (Home Dance). Tihu dolls also served as an educational function, familiarizing children with the characters of numerous Kachins.
At the end of the 19th century, when tihu began to be of interest to ethnologists, museums and collectors, their product became one of the branches of Indian Hopi craft (criticized by more traditional tribal members as a sacrilegious species). Bibliography
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