Hopi emergence & 'Ant People'/Kachina traditions, Held in several collections — A twentieth-century Hopi kachina doll on display in the Horniman Museum. Object number 1437.
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Hopi emergence & 'Ant People'/Kachina traditions

In 1905 Hopi tellers said ants are thin from a ritual flogging. The saviour Ant People came later.

oral; recorded 19th-20th c.

In 1905 the ants' thin waists came from a ritual whipping. Later writers linked them to Orion. How does a story change as it moves away from its tellers?

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