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kachina::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | spirit, disembodied spirit |
kachina::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | terpsichorean, dancer, professional dancer |
Examples of kachina
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Arizona's Hopis, for instance, carved hummingbird kachina dolls as religious icons.
From the washingtonpost.com
Buy a kachina doll, the brightly painted wooden sculptures of Hopi gods and legends.
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She also collected kachina dolls, which are representations of American Indian spirits.
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The collection of colorful Hopi Indian kachina dolls was tagged for the Heard Museum in Phoenix.
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Kachina likes to sit upright and greet onlookers with a wave.
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Walpi is especially known for pottery and hand-carved cottonwood kachina dolls representing spirits.
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The kachina doll wears a platter-size headdress that creates a dazzling, whip-whopping weathervane effect when he turns.
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Last fall, Selser invited Cavaliere and the Source into his home, where Hopi kachina masks were hanging on the walls.
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High end galleries in Santa Fe can sell Navajo blankets and kachina dolls for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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- A masked dancer during a Pueblo religious ceremony who is thought to embody some particular spirit
- A deified spirit of the Pueblo people
- A carved doll wearing the costume of a particular Pueblo spirit; usually presented to a child as a gift
- A kachina (also katchina or katcina, ; Hopi: katsina , plural katsinim) is a spirit being in western Pueblo cosmology and religious practices. ...
- Any supernatural being important in the religion of the Hopi and Zuni Indians of Arizona, USA, represented in painted figurines (kachina dolls) and in costumes of ritual impersonators wearing masks and costumes. Also spelled katsina.
- A (usually benevolent) supernatural being in Hopi religion; may be a personification of an aspect of nature, an ancestor, or something revealed in a dream.
- Stylized religious icons, meticulously carved from cottonwood root and painted to represent figures from Hopi mythology. Originally used to teach children about their religion, they have become a popular Hopi art form.
- Ancestor spirits of the Pueblo Indians in North America. The Hopi also believed in kachinas, believing them to be the souls of virtuous dead people.
