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Wiktionary
n. 1 A vaguely ancestral anthropomorphic spirit being, associated with clouds and rain or personifying the power in the sun, the earth(,) or corn (among other things). 2 A wooden doll, as might be given to a child, which represents such a being. 3 A masked dancer who represents such a being in a ceremonial dance or masked ceremony.
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A kachina (; also katchina, katcina, or katsina; Hopi: katsina , plural katsinim ) is a spirit being in western Pueblo religious beliefs. The western Pueblo, Native American cultures located in the southwestern United States include the Hopi, Zuni, Tewa Village (on the Hopi Reservation), Acoma Pueblo, and Laguna Pueblo. The kachina concept has three different aspects: the supernatural being, the kachina dancers (masked members of the community who represent kachinas at religious ceremonies), and kachina dolls, small dolls carved in the likeness of kachinas given as gifts to children.
Usage examples of "kachina".
Now he collects Japanese netsuke, Hopi kachina dolls, and Navaho rugs.
The room beyond the one with the kachina dolls had glass-fronted cases containing baskets and pottery, including some of the sensational black polished San Ildefonso ware.
The koshare had come tumbling down off their roof and a couple of them had grabbed one of the kachinas.
One of the koshares ran to the line of kachina dancers, threw his arms around one of the masked men, and pulled him out of the formation.
A kachina figure wearing a mask with oversized eyes and feathered tufts for ears was threatening one of the koshares with a whip of yucca.
The two-lane road and its traffic wound on for a mile or so, flanked by rustic signs indicating the way to Pima Point, the Tusayan Museum, and widely scattered tourist lodges called Yavapai, Maswik, Thunderbird, and Kachina.
The kachinas danced on, sublime spirits oblivious of such human imperfection.
University of New Mexico jacket, his face reverent, sprinkling cornmeal on the procession of kachinas passing him?
On April 28, while Dillinger loaded his gun and the kachinas of Orabi began the drum-beating, the Acapulco Gold-Diggers arrived, followed by the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, Dracula and His Brides, the Iron Curtain, the Noisy Minority, the International Debt, Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex, the Cloud of Unknowing, the Birth of a Nation, the Zombies, Attila and His Huns, Nihilism, the Catatonics.
But I had done a little tourist-type reading to prepare for my trip, so I recognized this creation as a kachina doll, a particularly big and beautiful and elaborate specimen of the type.
He went to the hotel doctor, and a short while after describing his symptoms he was rushed in a closed car to a building that had a Hopi Indian Kachina Doll Shop in front and the Las Vegas CIA office in the back.
His uncle there at Mishongnovi sold me a nineteenth-century Owl Kachina, and when I got it home and looked under the feathers I found one of those 'Made in Taiwan' labels.
Some sand-cast silver, leather-work, woodwork projects, and two or three half-finished kachina dolls.