Old Style Hopi Carved Roadrunner Traditional Bird Katsina Doll

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Old Style Hopi Carved Roadrunner Traditional Bird Katsina Doll by Merlin James

Roadrunner (Hospoa) appears during the nighttime Kiva Dances or during the Mixed Katsina Dances in the spring. He is one of many bird Katsinam of the Hopi. He is a side dancer and an inhabitant of the arid southwest desert.