KACHINA

kəchēˈnə, spirit of the invisible life forces of the Pueblo of North America. The kachinas, or kachinam, are impersonated by elaborately costumed masked male members of the tribes who visit Pueblo villages the first half of the year. In a variety of ceremonies, they dance, sing, bring gifts to the children, and sometimes administer public scoldings. Although not worshiped, kachinas are greatly revered, and one of their main purposes is to bring rain for the spring crops. The term kachina also applies to cottonwood dolls made by the Hopi and Zuni that are exquisitely carved and dressed like the dancers. Originally intended to instruct the children about the hundreds of kachina spirits, the finer carvings have become collector's items. The name is also spelled katchina.

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books on: Kachina  - 265 results

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Native Americans of the Southwest: The Serious Traveler's Introduction to People and Places
Book by Zdenek Salzmann, Joy M. Salzmann; Westview Press, 1997
Subjects: Indians Of North America--Museums--Southwest, New--Guidebooks, Indians Of North America--Southwest, New--Antiquities--Guidebooks, Indians Of North America--Southwest, New--Material Culture--Guidbooks, Southwest, New--Antiquities--Guidebooks, Southwest, New--Guidebooks
...available that describe the principal features of kachina dolls and provide keys to their identification...small sampling of their English names: Death Fly kachina, Broad-Faced kachina, Warrior kachina, White Ogre kachina, Disheveled...
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Models and Mirrors: Towards an Anthropology of Public Events
Book by Don Handelman; Berghahn Books, 1998
Subjects: Festivals, Holidays, Play, Symbolism
They the kachina strolled through the trees and when they...stuffed skin they cast toward the group of kachina who showed great fear and drew back in...launched their strange weapon against the kachina with great hilarity 1936: 449 . Four...
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The Hopi Child
Book by Wayne Dennis; D. Appleton-Century, 1940
Subjects: Hopi Indians, Indian Children--North America
...two forms of childrens initiation, the Kachina initiation and the Powamu initiation...entitles the boy to participate in the kachina dances. In describing the initiations...a moment digress to the subject of the kachina dances in order to state that in these...
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Native Arts of North America, Africa, and the South Pacific: An Introduction
Book by George A. Corbin; Westview Press, 1998
Subjects: Art, Primitive
...shows three examples of early 1890s Hopi kachina dolls, including, from left to right, a variation on the Niman kachina called Sio Hemis, a Shalako Mana...neighboring ZuNi people), and an ogre kachina. 21 The Sio Hemis kachina doll has...
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Hopi Coyote Tales: Istutuwutsi
Book by Ekkehart Malotki, Michael Lomatuway'ma, Anne-Marie Malotki; University of Nebraska Press, 1984
Subjects: Coyote (Legendary Character), Hopi Indians--Folklore, Hopi Language--Texts, Indians Of North America--Arizona--Folklore
...Coyote. He turned out to be a Korowiste kachina. Garbed completely in white, he wore...with small white dashes. The eyes of the kachina were oval, with little hooks extending...feathers were tied. In his right hand the kachina carried a rattle, in his left he had...
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The Kachina and the Cross: Indians and Spaniards in the Early Southwest
Journal article by Robert H. Jackson; Journal of Social History, Vol. 35, 2001
Subjects: Books--Reviews, The Kachina and the Cross: Indians and Spaniards in the Early Southwest (Book)--Reviews
The Kachina and the Cross: Indians and Spaniards in the Early Southwest by Robert H. Jackson The Kachina and the Cross: Indians and Spaniards in the Early Southwest. By Carroll L. Riley (Satt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1999. xvi...
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Some Aspects of the Aztec Religion in the Hopi Kachina Cult
Journal article by Susan E. James; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 42, 2000
Subjects: Aztec religion, Aztecs--Religious aspects, Cults--Analysis, Hopis--Religious aspects, Kachinas--Religious aspects, Pueblos (Native American people)--Religious aspects, Pueblos (Native Americans)--Religious aspects, Rites and ceremonies--Analysis, Rituals--Analysis
...Aspects of the Aztec Religion in the Hopi Kachina Cult. by SUSAN E. JAMES The origins of the kachina cult of the Southwest have been, and continue...theory (later modified) proposes that the kachina cult arose in imitation of post-Columbian...
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Mimetic Rituals of Child Sacrifice in the Hopi Kachina Cult
Journal article by Susan E. James; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 44, 2002
Subjects: Aztec religion, Hopis--Religious aspects, Human sacrifice--History, Kachinas--Religious aspects, Rites and ceremonies--History, Ritual, Rituals--History
...Mimetic Rituals of Child Sacrifice in the Hopi Kachina Cult. by Susan E. James In a previous article...celebrations with the arrival at the mesas of the kachina Soyoko accompanied by the kachina Heee and the ogre-kachinas, generally known...
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Demography and Life History Characteristics of the Rare Kachina Daisy (Erigeron Kachinensis, Asteraceae)
Journal article by Loreen Allphin, Kimball T. Harper; The American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 138, 1997
Subjects: Botany, Flowers & plants, Natural Bridges National Monument, Plant growth, San Juan County Utah
...Life History Characteristics of the Rare Kachina Daisy (Erigeron Kachinensis, Asteraceae...Allphin , Kimball T. Harper INTRODUCTON The Kachina daisy (Erigeron kachinensis Welsh Moore...formation) in the walls of deep canyons. The Kachina daisy was proposed as "endangered" by...
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Speech Intelligibility Reduces over Distance from an Attended Location: Evidence for an Auditory Spatial Gradient of Attention
Journal article by Kachina Allen, David Alais, Simon Carlile; Perception and Psychophysics, Vol. 71, 2009
Subjects: Experiments, Fire alarms, Speech, Studies
...Intelligibility Reduces over Distance from an Attended Location: Evidence for an Auditory Spatial Gradient of Attention by Kachina Allen , David Alais , Simon Carlile Although the cocktail party problem (Cherry, 1953) has been studied for decades, the...
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magazine articles on: Kachina  - 96 results

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Kachina Carving
Magazine article by Antonio Lopez; Southwest Art, Vol. 30, August 2000
Kachina Carving by Antonio Lopez ALTHOUGH CLARK...years of age when he was initiated into the kachina society, learning from his grandfather...certain parameters. For one, he believes kachina makers should speak Hopi since that is...
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A Buyer's Guide to Kachina Dolls
Magazine article by Gregory Schaaf; Southwest Art, Vol. 30, August 2000
A Buyers Guide to Kachina Dolls by Gregory Schaaf KACHINA DOLLS ARE AMONG the most popular of Indian art forms. Most people, however, know little about the kachina spirits represented by the dolls and in kachina dances...
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A Contemporary Kachina
Magazine article by Melanie Herzog; School Arts, Vol. 88, February 1989
Subjects: Hopis--Religion, Kachinas--History, Native Americans--Dolls
A contemporary kachina by Melanie Herzog Looking carefully Hopi kachina figures are visual representations of an essential...appear in these religious ceremonies. often called "kachina dolls," these figures traditionally are given to...
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Kachina Dolls
Magazine article by Patricia Vining; School Arts, Vol. 94, April 1995
Subjects: Dolls--Decoration, painting, etc., Kachinas--Design and construction, Native American art--Study and teaching
Kachina dolls by Patricia Vining Kachinas, the...of all things in the world. During the Kachina Season, which begins in December and ends...These men also carve wooden replicas of the kachina they represent out of the root of the cottonwood...
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Impersonators of Spirits - the Hopi Kachina Season
Magazine article by Robert L. Tefertillar; World and I, Vol. 15, October 2000
Subjects: Hopis--Religious aspects, Native American dance, Native Americans--Dances
Impersonators of Spirits - the Hopi Kachina Season. by Robert L. Tefertillar The Hopi...believe ensure a bountiful harvest. The kachina season Every Hopi is initiated into the cult of the kachina at an early age. According to its main...
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newspaper articles on: Kachina  - 36 results

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SAILING: Collings Takes the Number One Spot
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), June 15, 2005
...Alistair Schlater in the Star Mars and Peter Ball in the Squib Kachina Two. The two divisions of the LBSA yachts brought successes...Mersey (S Collings); 2. Mermerus (P Bastow); Squibs: 1. Kachina II (P Ball). Seabirds: 1. Cormorant (A Read); 2. Dodo...
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TIME OUT: Word Wizard
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), January 11, 2008
...one of which is correct. Can you identify the right definition? KACHINA 1 Japanese wall-picture or calligraphic inscription; 2) A simple...North America at ritual ceremonies. ANSWER: No 3 is correct.A kachina is an Indian sprit.
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Wondrous Red Rock Country
Newspaper article by Candyce H. Stapen; The Washington Times, April 27, 1997
...power center. Legend has it that this is also the site of Kachina Woman, revered by Indians as the Mother of the Earth. The...weavers and offers a large selection of Navajo rugs as well as Kachina dolls, pottery, baskets and sand paintings. From Sedona...
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In Arizona, Taking a Step Back in Time
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 8, 2010
Subjects: Emigration and immigration law, Emigration and immigration--Laws, regulations and rules, Immigration law
...to find out what became of the racial/ethnic comity that once seemed as much a part of Arizona as cactus, turquoise and kachina dolls. With polls showing about 70 percent of white Arizonans supportive of the law and roughly the same percentage of Latino...
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Finding Your True Love
Newspaper article; The Observer (Gladstone, Australia), February 14, 2011
...and crystals are making their own unique mark on the way some are choosing prospective partners or playing the game of love. Kachina Moon owner Suze Hagenbach said many people used crystals as guidance with all crystals having their own vibration. The Agnes...
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encyclopedia articles on: Kachina  - 5 results

 
 
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Kachina
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KACHINA k che n , spirit of the invisible life...bring rain for the spring crops. The term kachina also applies to cottonwood dolls made by...instruct the children about the hundreds of kachina spirits, the finer carvings have become...
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Pueblo , Indigenous People of North America
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...residence, and the houses and gardens are owned by women; the kachina cult emphasizes weather control, and the Pueblo who follow...the Hopi have an elected council on the tribal level. The Kachina and other secret societies dealing with war, agriculture...
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North American Native Art
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the ritual sandpaintings of the Navajo. The Hopi (see also Pueblo ) and Zuni developed brilliantly carved and ornamented kachina dolls to represent living spirits; these are greatly valued by collectors today. After the Spanish conquest, silverworking...
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Hopi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...spiritual leader. Political and religious duties revolve around the clans. The Badger clan, for instance, still conducts the kachina (fertility) ceremony, and the Antelope and Snake clans perform the well-known snake dance at Walpi and other pueblos...
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Natural Bridges National Monument
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...huge natural sandstone bridges: Owachomo (also called Rock Mound), 106 ft (32 m) high with a span of 180 ft (55 m); Kachina, 210 ft (64 m) high with a span of 206 ft (63 m); and Sipapu, 220 ft (67 m) high with a span of 268 ft (82 m...


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