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Kachina
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A kachina is a spirit being in the religious beliefs of the Pueblo peoples, Native American cultures located in the southwestern part of the United States. In Pueblo cultures, kachina rites are practi
Palahiko Mana, Water-Drinking Maiden, Hopi 1899. She wears a headdress with stepped Earth signs and corn ears. Water Drinking Woman seems to be a name for the corn itself, one of many forms of the Corn Maidens.
Palahiko Mana, Water-Drinking Maiden, Hopi 1899. She wears a headdress with stepped Earth signs and corn ears. Water Drinking Woman seems to be a name
Drawings of kachina dolls, Plate 11 from an 1894 anthropology book Dolls of the Tusayan Indians by Jesse Walter Fewkes.
Drawings of kachina dolls, Plate 11 from an 1894 anthropology book Dolls of the Tusayan Indians by Jesse Walter Fewkes.
Kachina dolls in the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.
Kachina dolls in the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.
Hopi Pueblo (Native American). Kachina Doll (Pahlikmana), late 19th century. Brooklyn Museum
Hopi Pueblo (Native American). Kachina Doll (Pahlikmana), late 19th century. Brooklyn Museum
Hopi Kachina figure
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Hopi kachina figures or Hopi kachina dolls are figures carved, typically from cottonwood root, by Hopi people to instruct young girls and new brides about kachinas or katsinam, the immortal beings tha
Kachina tihu (Kokopol), probably late 19th century, Brooklyn Museum
Kachina tihu (Kokopol), probably late 19th century, Brooklyn Museum
Two Hopi kachina dolls (male and female), ca.1900
Two Hopi kachina dolls (male and female), ca.1900