[ENGLISH NAME: Kachina] Snake Dancer [HOPI NAME: Katsina] Chusona [MEANING OR STORY:] 
The Snake Dancer or Chusona is not a kachina but rather a society personage. It has always had an intense fascination for the non-Hopi and therefore, its effigies had been carved for many years. It is a sacred Kachina which is rarely carved.