Old Style Hopi Carved Rabbit Stick Traditional Hunter Katsina Doll

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Old Style Hopi Carved Rabbit Stick Traditional Hunter Katsina Doll by Paul Huma

Rabbit Stick (Makto). Little is known about Makto. The doll is derived from an old mask found at First Mesa and described by J. Walter Fewkes in 1903. It would seem he was a Katsina that celebrated the hunt, for the Hopi used the curved stick you see on the face of the mask to throw at rabbits and other small game.