Old Style Hopi Carved Cactus Flower Traditional Plant Kachina Doll (Katsina Doll)

Description

Old Style Hopi Carved Cactus Flower (Prickly Pear) Traditional Plant Katsina Doll by Samuel Masayumptewa

This Prickly Pear flower Katsina brings flowers, pleasantness and great beauty. The many circles of color and the multicolored feathers provide a rainbow-like appearance, and he looks like a walking prayer for summer. One of his functions seems to be purification. In this role he carries a small bunch of yucca blades and strikes each individual that he meets a rather firm blow whether it be child or adult, Hopi or White. The Katsina appears during Water Serpent Ceremony, Mixed Dances, Bean Dance (Powamuya) and Angk'wa.