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Hopi Tuskiapaya - Crazy Rattle Katsina Doll - 25836
Category: Kachina - Katsina | Posted by | Thu, Mar 3rd 2016, 1:45pm
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."