Clown
The clown denotes the king’s inversion: material struggle, folly, and the ruler’s substitute in symbolic sacrifice.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Symbol
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Zuni folklore (1)
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is, or is partly, this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Koyemshi is Zuni folklore
why
… or Mudheads, are Zuni ceremonial clown figures whose comic, transgressive public …