Old Style Hopi Carved Frog Traditional Rain Kachina Doll (Katsina Doll)

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Old Style Hopi Carved Frog Traditional Rain Katsina Doll by Sean Macias

The Frog Maid Katsina (Paqua Mana) is the female partner of the Frog (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 from a huge box covered with painted paper. During a pause 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.