Native American Navajo Made Ogre Kachina Doll

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Native American Navajo Made Black Ogre Kachina Doll by Alfred Benally

The Black Ogre is a disciplinarian who reinforce the Hopi way of life to the children of the Pueblo. As a means of discipline, children are told the Ogres can swallow them whole, unless they are good. 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.