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Cactus

11" total height


The Cactus kachina, or Yung'a, derives its name from the Spanish word for prickly pear, tuna. According to Barton Wright, however, "there is just as much reason to believe that this word, yung'a, is an old Hopi word.

"As a kachina, he appeared just prior to the turn of the century and was personated only a few times on First Mesa. He has been perpetuated more through the use of dolls rather than in dances.

"His function on Third Mesa was to insure the cleaning of springs, but on First Mesa he seems to have appeared primarily in the Soyohim.

-Barton Wright, Kachinas: a Hopi Artist's Documentary (146)

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