Hopi Ogre Woman Kachina
Ogre Woman Kachina (Soyok Wuhti) appears at Hopi First Mesa during the spring planting ceremonies. A scary bogey-woman, she orders children to help make food. If refused, she’ll carry them off to perhaps be eaten! Soyoko also appears with other ogre kachinas, carrying a long crook and a knife. Hopi children may pretend to be scared as they scatter away from her laughing with delight. This doll is dated 1988, cottonwood and pine wood, horse-hair, cloth, paint, 13 ½ inches tall
Ogre Woman Kachina (Soyok Wuhti) appears at Hopi First Mesa during the spring planting ceremonies. A scary bogey-woman, she orders children to help make food. If refused, she’ll carry them off to perhaps be eaten! Soyoko also appears with other ogre kachinas, carrying a long crook and a knife. Hopi children may pretend to be scared as they scatter away from her laughing with delight. This doll is dated 1988, cottonwood and pine wood, horse-hair, cloth, paint, 13 ½ inches tall
Ogre Woman Kachina (Soyok Wuhti) appears at Hopi First Mesa during the spring planting ceremonies. A scary bogey-woman, she orders children to help make food. If refused, she’ll carry them off to perhaps be eaten! Soyoko also appears with other ogre kachinas, carrying a long crook and a knife. Hopi children may pretend to be scared as they scatter away from her laughing with delight. This doll is dated 1988, cottonwood and pine wood, horse-hair, cloth, paint, 13 ½ inches tall