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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 3540136, member: 8267&quot;]There are important elements missing - what was in his hands, his ears are gone -&nbsp; which makes it more difficult to identify him. But he has many of the features of &quot;Talavai&quot;, Morning Singer. The green ruff, one blue leg &amp; one yellow, yellow &amp; blue bands on the shoulders, the cape, the feather headdress (in the case of yours, with real feathers). It looks like yours might have similar symbols painted on his face, hidden by the ruff.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.kachinahouse.com/pub/media/catalog/product/cache/91c6bfe4e4d90ccf0a79f0c564bb65ad/a/n/ant_amsinger.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="https://www.kachinahouse.com/antique-native-american-hopi-carved-morning-singer-dancer-katsina-doll-0641" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.kachinahouse.com/antique-native-american-hopi-carved-morning-singer-dancer-katsina-doll-0641" rel="nofollow">https://www.kachinahouse.com/antique-native-american-hopi-carved-morning-singer-dancer-katsina-doll-0641</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.morningsinger.com/msinger.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><a href="https://www.morningsinger.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.morningsinger.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.morningsinger.com/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.adobegallery.com/metas/display/1647733" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="https://www.adobegallery.com/art/hopi-talavai-morning-katsina-doll-circa-1940s" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.adobegallery.com/art/hopi-talavai-morning-katsina-doll-circa-1940s" rel="nofollow">https://www.adobegallery.com/art/hopi-talavai-morning-katsina-doll-circa-1940s</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.artnet.com/WebServices/images/ll00261lldqO5GFgOGECfDrCWvaHBOc60BE/joni-falk-talavai---morning-kachina-hopi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="http://www.artnet.com/artists/joni-falk/talavai-morning-kachina-hopi-3qtnO0sXXhC8-52Lp9F0EA2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.artnet.com/artists/joni-falk/talavai-morning-kachina-hopi-3qtnO0sXXhC8-52Lp9F0EA2" rel="nofollow">http://www.artnet.com/artists/joni-falk/talavai-morning-kachina-hopi-3qtnO0sXXhC8-52Lp9F0EA2</a></p><p><br /></p><p>As for the intense shade of blue, technical studies have shown that Reckitts Laundry Blue, (introduced in the 1850s and still made) has been used on Hopi kachinas (as well as in other ethnographic contexts). The laundry bluing makes use of a synthetic ultramarine pigment.</p><p>N.Odegaard, M. Crawford, &quot;Laundry Bluing as a Colorant in Ethnographic Objects: ICOM Preprints 11th triennial meeting, Vol II, Edinburgh, 1996[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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