Native American Hopi Carved Billy Goat Fertility Kachina Doll (Katsina Doll)

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Native American Hopi Carved Billy Goat Fertility Katsina Doll by Milton Howard

The Billy Goat is an animal Katsina who appears during the fast parades and in the summer. He is rarely carved as a Katsina doll and appears occasionally in plaza dances, always with the clowns. He is one of the copulation Katsinam and is interested in copulating with everything in sight. His large testicles beneath his loin cloth are full of fruit and other goodies, and toward the end of the dance, the aunt of the man personating the Billy Goat cuts off his testicles and gives the fruit and other goodies to spectators.