K473 Ogre Woman
Ogre Woman by Hoi kachina carver Darren Pooyouma. The 11” kachina is carved from cottonwood root in the traditional Hopi manner.
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ohn Poleahla, Sr.Darren Pooyouma was born 1976 and has been carving since 1990. He is from Old Oraibi (Third Mesa) on the Hopi Reservation.
The Ogre Woman (Soyok Wuhti) is one of the Hopi’s delightfully animated kachinas. She appears on the First Mesa in Hopiland during the spring planting ceremonies.
Both entertainment and bogeyman figure, she pleads with children to help her grind meal and if they refuse, she threatens to catch them. She often has a basket on her back to carry the children away.
Later she appears with a group of other ogres and monster kachinas, with a long crook, to catch children, and a bloody knife. The children, of course, are scared and they scatter with squeals of delighted fear.
