 Alice Honumpka is primarily known as Alice (Honumpka) Homeahumaka
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Active as a carver in the early 1900s, 1910-1930s, Alice Homeahumaka is thought perhaps to be the same person as Alice Honumpka. She was Hopi Indian and known for the Cow Katsina (Kachina) figure, which she created from cottonwood, roots, cow horn, feathers, dyed horsehair and tanned leather.
Her name is linked to a Cow Katsina, Wakas'katsina, which is in the Elkus Collection at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. It is described as being in "sta (showing 500 of 1211 characters). |
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