Old Style Hopi Carved Crow Man Traditional Kachina Doll (Katsina Doll)

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Old Style Hopi Carved Crow Man Traditional Katsina Doll by Samuel Masayumptewa

Crow Man (Angwus Katsina) is one of the warriors who make war on the clowns during the Plaza Dances or who appear in the Soyohim of late spring. He comes to threaten the clowns for their non-Hopi behavior, appearing again and again until finally he and others who have the same function descend upon the clowns and thoroughly chastise them.