NOUN
- a masked dancer during a Pueblo religious ceremony who is thought to embody some particular spirit
- a carved doll wearing the costume of a particular Pueblo spirit; usually presented to a child as a gift
- a deified spirit of the Pueblo people
How To Use kachina In A Sentence
- Among the Hopi, the kachinas are said to live in the San Francisco peaks near Flagstaff.
- The array of historical treasures range from a butterfly kachina to a buckskin dress.
- Imagine that a museum has just acquired a Hopi Kachina doll.
- The word kachina is a little confusing since it refers to the dolls, which have no power. Nightway
- Commercial art includes the making of kachina dolls, silver jewelry, woven baskets, and pottery.
- Kachina, for example, also denotes one of the elaborately masked dancers who impersonate a kachina at agricultural ceremonies, and yeibichai and shalako similarly have the same kind of dual usage. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3
- Silver jewelry, kachinas, and painted pots authenticate the experience by providing a connection to the history, lifeways, and people of the area.
- And something which looked like a Zuñi kachina snooping in the moonlight at a hippie commune. THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
- The petroglyph at the Kachina Bridge formation in Natural Bridges National Monument has drawn curious visitors for years.
- An ancient Hopi Prophecy states. When the Blue Star Kachina makes its appearance in the heavens the 5th world will emerge.