Sam Kayquoptewa
Cow Kachina
17 1/2"
total height
The artist, a member of the
Rabbit/Tobacco Clan, lives in the village of Hotevilla on Third
Mesa on the Hopi Reservation.
He is from a family of talented
siblings who are basket weavers and katsina doll carvers. He
is an award winning carver, having won both the 2003 and 2004
Award of Excellence in Katsina Doll Carving, Southwest Indian
Art Fair, Arizona State Museum, Phoenix, Arizona.
His work is in the collection
of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma
City, OK.
