How To Use Kachina In A Sentence
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Among the Hopi, the kachinas are said to live in the San Francisco peaks near Flagstaff.
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The array of historical treasures range from a butterfly kachina to a buckskin dress.
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Imagine that a museum has just acquired a Hopi Kachina doll.
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The word kachina is a little confusing since it refers to the dolls, which have no power.
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Commercial art includes the making of kachina dolls, silver jewelry, woven baskets, and pottery.
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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.
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Silver jewelry, kachinas, and painted pots authenticate the experience by providing a connection to the history, lifeways, and people of the area.
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And something which looked like a Zuñi kachina snooping in the moonlight at a hippie commune.
THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
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The petroglyph at the Kachina Bridge formation in Natural Bridges National Monument has drawn curious visitors for years.
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An ancient Hopi Prophecy states. When the Blue Star Kachina makes its appearance in the heavens the 5th world will emerge.
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The ripe corn is eaten; corn pollen and meal are used in kiva ceremonies and at kachina dances.
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Some ceremonials, such as the Zuni Shalakos, feature kachinas in ten-foot high costumes.
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This style is also worn by the Longhair kachina, one of the important Hopi spirits who live in the Peaks and bring rain to Hopiland.
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ka", part of the word kachina, the Hopi spirits, of which Masau'u was one.
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