Kachinas are figures from the Hopi culture; for Sottsass, they embodied the soul of the unknown.
“Kachinas are wooden dolls dressed with fabric, furs, animal hair and feathers and painted in different designs and colours. They can also be masks worn by men who dance so-called ceremonial dances in town squares, mainly on the winter solstice but sometimes also in mid-July. Kachinas are also supernatural beings, but they are neither gods nor people. They are the souls of the unknown, of everything that is unknown, so kachinas represent the unknown in our existence in the universe…”, with these words, in 2004, Ettore Sottsass described the Kachinas
Design is fine. History is mine. 