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Antique Native American Hopi Carved Black Ogre's Uncle (Tahaum Soyoko) Katsina Doll by Womack Pavatea
The Black Ogre's Uncle (Tahaum Soyoko) arrives with the Black Ogre (Nata-aska). While Ogre Woman (Soyok Wuhti) threatens to physically harm people, Nata-aska and Tahaum Soyoko dance and brandish their weapons. These Ogres are all disciplinarians who appear around the time of the Powamuya Ceremony. Ogres carry a saw (sometimes a knife) as well as a bow and arrows for hunting. Their outstanding feature is their long, flapping jaws, which they can clack quite loudly. The purpose of these Katsinam is to reinforce the Hopi way of life to the children of the Pueblo. These Ogres accompany Soyok Wuhti on her trip to collect food from the children. As a means of discipline, children are told the Ogres can swallow them whole, unless they are good little children. The fierce and threatening behavior of these Katsinam strikes fear into the children, but they are eventually saved from imminent danger by the people of their Pueblo. Anglos would call these Katsinam the boogymen. This particular katsina was carved in the mid 1960s by Hopi Carver Womack Pavatea. He has a feather headdress and horsehair that comes over his face. He wears a cloak of fur, a shell bracelet, a leather and shell rattle on his right leg, a yarn wrap on his left leg and his brown carved moccasins are adorned with leather fringe. A fabulous, quite large and imposing figure, that most remarkably of all is free-standing katsina. Click on numbered boxes below image for additional views.
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Womack Pavatea |
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25 in. tall |
| Price: $2,500.00 |
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