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Kokopelli, the hump-backed Flute Player, has been notoriously denigrated in the Southwest with tourist-related items such as coasters, napkins, magnets, and other kinds of miscellaneous bric-a-brac. Some of the interest in him is because he is so blatantly phallic in appearance. In reality, however, he is a very important personage to the pueblo people. He appeared in Mimbres and Hohokam pottery decorations of a thousand years ago. He also is documented in petroglyph drawings and pictographs representations. 

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