Vintage Hopi Coiled Plaque from the second Mesa. Size: 14" diameter Condition: Excellent Design: Eagle design with orange, brown and ivory accents Artist: Unknown Sold as is Plaques play a central role during Hopi weddings. Custom requires that the groom’s family make gifts to the bride and her family. These include foodstuffs and the bride’s wedding outfit— her specially woven robes, her dress, her cape, her belt, her wedding sash, her reed carrying case, and her white boots. The bride’s family is then obliged to ‘pay back’ the groom’s family for their gifts. The bride, her female relatives, and friends all grind a vast amount of corn, bake piles of piki, and cook tubs of cornmeal pudding for this pay back. The pay back also requires the gift of numerous baskets, many of which are heaped high with cornmeal.
