Untitled+(Coyote+and+Turtle)

Date: after 1930
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1986/1986.65.339_1a.jpg?itok=kXhjzRSR width="260" height="332" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/untitled-coyote-and-turtle-25440"]] || Title: **Untitled (Coyote and Turtle)**

Artist: **Unidentified**

Medium: carved, varnished, and painted walnut Dimensions: 15 3/8 x 9 5/8 x 14 in. (39.2 x 24.5 x 35.5 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson

Accession: 1986.65.339 || This carving seems to portray a Hopi tale about Coyote and Turtle. Turtle foolishly leaves the river, but tricks Coyote into helping him get back home. While the carver of this sculpture is unknown, the imagery resembles illustrations done by Fred Kabotie (1900--86), a Hopi from the second Mesa, for //Taytay’s Tales//, published in 1922.
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Taytay's Tales - UPenn's Digital Library Taytay's Tales - free ebook available from Google Books
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