Among the Taos and Acoma peoples, this figure carries a bag of presents on his back, but other peoples see him as carrying songs or seeds.
According to a tossup at 2004 ACF Nationals, this figure is "comparable in many ways to Santa Clause". This figure's name may be partially derived from a word for "robber fly", and one story of this figure's birth says that he was born when an eagle shot an arrow into an insect. Another theory is that this figure represents a traveling merchant. Among the Taos and Acoma peoples, this figure carries a bag of presents on his back, but other peoples see him as carrying songs or seeds. This figure is frequently depicted as a kachina doll. Girls are told to avoid bathing in the river because of this figure, who may impregnate them by use of his detachable phallus. For ten points, name this trickster god of the American southwest, depicted as a hunched-over man playing a flute.
According to a tossup at 2004 ACF Nationals, this figure is "comparable in many ways to Santa Clause".
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