Hopi Mixed Media Student Drawing, 2001 badger I've really fallen in love

I've really fallen in love with these old wooden Czechoslovakian "ramp walker" figures

and bear paw prints along the bottom leading the eye along

which is partially torn away

which made some good ones

it is so warmly and specifically done

Hopi Mixed Media Student Drawing, 2001 badger I've really fallen in loveI purchased this drawing from a seller who had bought it along with a number of other pieces from the private collector of a teacher who had spent many years working on a Hopi reservation in Arizona, and believe it was made by a student of that teacher. I believe the figure represented in Tasap (Tasaf), the Hopi tribes representation of a Navajo god, beautifully detailed and decorated here in a manner that seems a hybrid of traditional and