Priest Killer

Yowi is an Ogre Kachina. He may be regarded as a diety of certain Hopi Warrior Clans, having supremely powerful inner spiritual responsibility to punish including taking of life. He is now referred to by the non-Hopi people as the Priest Killer because he carried out the beheading of the priest during the Pueblo Revolt in 1680. The Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Arizona revolted against the Catholic church in order to retain and have the freedom of practicing their own religion.

Artist: D.C. NUVAYESTEWA

Height: 11" high

$1495.00