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The Hopi Tuskiapaya Katsina, is called the Crazy Rattle Katsina, and is a variant of the Sikyachantaka Katsina, which is a very old Hopi Katsina.  It is said that a long time ago when the Hopis were having a famine and the Spanish had driven off their sheep, they decided to have a katsina dance.  At that time, Sikyachantaka did not have a name but one man in the village had a cow, and he killed the animal and fed these katsinas the entrails of the cow.  Hence their name, "holding entrails in the mouth." 

Read more about this Katsina doll here..