Definition of Katchina

1. kachina [n -S] - See also: kachina

Lexicographical Neighbors of Katchina

katana
katanas
katanin
katanosin
katanosins
kataphatic
kataphatically
katara
katas
katastases
katastasis
katastate
katastates
katasukashi
katathermometer
katchina (current term)
katchinas
katcina
katcinas
kate
kathak
kathakali
kathakalis
kathaks
katharobe
katharobes
katharobic
katharometer
katharometers
katharses

Literary usage of Katchina

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Grand Canyon of Arizona: How to See it by George Wharton James (1910)
"katchina Baskets. For use in the katchina dances, katchina baskets are made, and if one were to start a collection of all the katchina baskets of the Hopi, ..."

2. Handicraft by Arthur Carey, Frederic Allen Whiting, Huger Elliott, National League of Handicraft Societies, Carl Purington Rollins, Society of Arts and Crafts (1903)
"To use in the katchina dances these katchina baskets are made, and if one were to start in to make a collection of all the katchina baskets of the Hopi, ..."

3. The Indians of the Painted Desert Region: Hopis, Navahoes, Wallapais, Havasupais by George Wharton James (1903)
"In it he has written a most fascinating account of the thought movements of the Amerind ; and Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, in his " Interpretation of katchina ..."

4. Arizona, the Wonderland: The History of Its Ancient Cliff and Cave Dwellings by George Wharton James (1917)
"... chiefs dressing up as a katchina — a sacred mythological character of the Hopis — and going to a dance at Walpi. He succeeded in gaining entrance to the ..."

5. New Mexico, the Land of the Delight Makers: The History of Its Ancient Cliff by George Wharton James (1920)
"... their fascinating and complex dances, with the weird katchina headdresses; their quaint and patient burros — these and a hundred and one features he has ..."

6. Our American Wonderlands by George Wharton James (1915)
"Following this, exhibitions of arrow-swallowing, katchina dancing, feather conjuring, and the making of a yucca grow fill up the night until as dawn ..."

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