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Definition of Kachinas
1. kachina [n] - See also: kachina
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kachinas
Literary usage of Kachinas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southwest Indians by Elaine Hansen Cleary (1996)
"Legend says that the kachinas came with the Pueblo when they rose up from the
... The kachinas provided comfort and hope, but, even more important, ..."
2. Stability and Variation in Hopi Song by George List (1993)
"A group of eight or more kachinas forms a file and dances in slow shuffling ...
One of the men in the file of kachinas is the leader and initiates the dance ..."
3. Folk Art Projects North America by Yvonne Despard (1997)
"There are hundreds of kachinas or spirits in the form of animals, birds, ...
Some kachinas are pictured as ogres who frighten children into obedience to ..."
4. The Moki Snake Dance: A Popular Account of that Unparalleled Dramatic Pagan by Walter Hough (1901)
"The ceremonial year of the Moki is divided equally by two great events, the
departure of the kachinas in August and their arrival in December. ..."
5. The Hopi Indians by Walter Hough (1915)
"Now the kachinas throng the pueblos and a perfect carnival reigns with the ...
The kachinas are the deified spirits of the ancestors, who came from San ..."
6. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 2/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"Ceremonies are also divided into those with masked and those with unmasked
participants, the former, designated kachinas, extending from January to July, ..."
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