The Frog Maid (Paqua Mana) is the female partner of the Frog Katsina (Paqua) and is most likely a Water Clan Katsina. This Katsina is supposed to have originated in a prank at Shungopavi in the late 1960s. During a dance rasping noises were heard coming form a huge box covered with painted paper. During a puase in the dance the paper broke and the Frog Katsinam hopped out.
On a more serious side, water is truly the staff of life here in the arid southwest and the frog would be a harbinger of rain and therefore a welcome site in Hopiland.
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