Navajo Kachina Mudhead

Artist signed on bottom: Joanne Canuditto

Size:  12″ tall

The Mudhead is one of the most well known Kachinas and can take the place of any other Kachina during a ceremony. He is reddish-brown and is said to have been painted with mud from the bottom of a sacred spring. Mudheads play many different roles; dancers, drummers, announcers, singers and clowns. The Mudhead also plays games with the audience during rest periods between dances.