Title: Black Ogre
Artist: Unknown
Date: 1992
Medium: Cottonwood root and paint
Credit Line: Collection of the John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art. Gift from John Blom.

Item description: The scary Black Ogre or Nataska Kachina threatens to take children from their homes and eat them with his huge snout. Parents bargain with the Ogre and offer food if they’ll leave their children alone. The Ogre agrees, and takes the food from the household and to the kivas.