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Sacred Clowns
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AuthorTony Hillerman
Cover artistPeter Thorpe
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish
SeriesJoe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police Series
GenreDetective fiction
Set inNavajo Nation in Southwestern United States
Published1993 HarperCollins
Media typePrint and audio
Pages305
Awardsnominated 1994 Anthony Award for Best Novel
ISBN0-06-016767-X
OCLC28025657
Preceded byCoyote Waits (1990) 
Followed byThe Fallen Man (1996) 

Sacred Clowns is a crime novel by American writer Tony Hillerman, the eleventh in the Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series, first published in 1993.

Murders happen on both the Navajo reservation and the Tano Pueblo. One happens during a Tano ceremonial, with the koshares (sacred clowns) and kachinas performing. Leaphorn is in charge of a new investigation unit, with Chee as his sole staff support.

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Tony Hillerman

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Joe Leaphorn

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Jim Chee

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The Fallen Man

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Kachina

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List of Native American deities

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Trickster Hawenniyo A fertility god Kaakvha Solar deity Sioux Haokah Sacred clown Anpao Spirit with two faces that represents the dawn Snohomish Dohkwibuhch...

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Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

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reach out to people. When we're dressed up like that, kind of like sacred clowns, it allows people to interact with us." The organization of the Sisters...

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Badchen

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a type of Ashkenazic Jewish professional wedding entertainer, poet, sacred clown, and master of ceremonies originating in Eastern Europe, with a history...

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primordiality. Native American clowns are ridiculous in their contrary and rule breaking antics. In the film Little Big Man, the sacred clown rides sitting backwards...

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Coyote Waits

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Sioux

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(thunder beings) is believed to involuntarily make someone a Heyókȟa, a sacred clown. Black Elk, a famous Heyókȟa said: "Only those who have had visions of...

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Alive in Studio A

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Anthony Award for Best Novel

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The First Eagle

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Hopi Kachina figure

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Balls to Picasso

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percussion Dean Ortega – vocals Mario Aguilar – percussion on "Shoot All the Clowns" Additional musicians Dickie Fliszar – drums on "Tears of the Dragon" Richard...

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Dave Morice

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Skeena Reece

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multi-disciplinary practice includes such genres as performance art, "sacred clowning," songwriting, and video art. Reece is of Cree, Tsimshian, Gitksan...

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Weird SoundCloud

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"deconstructing and reshaping memes and popular music, recontextualizing the sacred texts of millennial chat rooms." In a January 2014 interview, DJ Kevin Wang...

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Semar

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punokawan (clowns) but is divine and very wise. He is the dhanyang (guardian spirit) of Java, and is regarded by some as the most sacred figure of the...

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The Grass Dancer

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family. While ghost horse is a warrior who chose to become a heyoka, or sacred clown, after his love Red Dress died. His spirit was said to guard over her...

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