Between our two stores we have just over THREE HUNDRED katsinas on hand at any given moment - understandably our website can only show a cross-section!

Please contact us at either store with any special interests or requests you might have and we will e-mail you photos of other katsinas we have on hand - or find one for you!

Carved by Jerel Quamahongnewa. Sootukwnangw. The name literally translates as Star-thunderhead-heart. He appears during the early planting ceremony known as Powamuy or Bean Ceremony but may also come during the plaza dances or katsintikive. 12.5 inches high. $260.

A Black Duck katsina by Jerel Quamahongnewa. 10.5 inches high and $275. (Tucson) The Hopi are on a major flyway for migratory birds - which often stopped at the spring-fed area of Munqapi village and again near present-day WInslow on the LIttle Colorado River

A Quail or Kwarpa (pronounced koo-warsh pa) katsina by Jerel Quamhongnewa. 9 inches high. $220 (Tucson)

A Pooko or Dog katsina by Jerel Quamahongnewa. 9.5 inches high. $220

A Sikyataio or Yellow Fox katsina by Patrick Joshvema. 8.5 inches high. $180

A Kocha Tsakwayna or White Tsakwayna, one of the warrior katsinas, by Loren Honyouti, who currently lives in Bakavi Village on Third Mesa. 11 inches high and $1100. (Tucson)

A Lightning Longhair katsina by Loren Honyouti of Paaqavi village on Third Mesa. 9.5 inches high. $875

Darance Chimerica is from the Fire Clan and the village of Hotvela on Third Mesa. His distinctive style is reflected in the five katsina carvings below.

From left to right:

Omaw or Cloud katsina. 12 inches high to the tip of the feathers. $350

10 inches high, this is the Owangaroro or Stone Eater. He is one of the so-called “Mad” katsinas, regarded as dangerous and must be lead around at rope’s length by a Mudhead. It is said that if rocks are thrown at him he will catch and eat the rocks. At Second Mesa he sometime acts as a guard katsina.. $350

Tuma'oy White Chin (more accurately Clay Chin) katsina. 11 inches to the tip of the feathers. $350

(Tucson)

Two Sooyoko by Darance - the Black Ogre or Nataska at left and the Wiharu or White Ogre at right. Each is 10 inches high (not including the corn husk tassels) $350 each

Two Crow Brides (essentially Crow Mother -Angwusanomtaqa- but wearing the white manta of a Hopi bride. Both by Hubert Tenakhongva. The one at left is in Santa Fe and measures 13 inches high and 6.5 inches across. The one at right is in Tucson and measures 13.5 inches high and 6 inches across. Each is $160.