Tribal art

ART TRIBAL

WEDNESDAY MAY 27, 2026

PARIS - HÔTEL DROUOT - ROOM 2

Sale at 1:30 pm

Public exhibitions :

Tuesday May 26 from 11am to 6pm

and the morning of the sale from 11am to 12pm

Telephone during the exhibition and sale: 01 48 00 20 02

EXPERT :

- AFRICAN ART

Éric SCHOELLER - 06 11 86 39 64

The Hopi people are the only branch of the Shoshone language group to have successfully adapted to life in the pueblos. In their traditions, social organization and customs, the Hopi are very similar to other Pueblo Indians.

Hopi religion, like that of all other Pueblo peoples, includes nature worship, and there are numerous ceremonies designed to invoke or influence supernatural powers.

Ancestral worship also plays an important role in Hopi ceremonies.

Private rituals are held in underground ceremonial halls called kiva, while public services and dances are generally held in the open air. The most important Hopi religious ceremonies are the kachina fertility mysteries, and the mid-summer and mid-winter rituals of sun and fire worship.

The kachina is the spirit of an ancestor, usually representing a clan, symbolized in ceremonies by a masked dancer covered in paint.