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Published by University of New Mexico Press, 1970
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- Title
- Hopi Kachina Dolls with a Key to Their Identification
- Author
- Harold S. Colton
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press
- Publication year
- 1970
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0826301800
- ISBN 13
- 9780826301802
A Hopi Indian will tell you that a kachina is a supernatural being who is impersonated by a man wearing a mask. Small wooden dolls carved in the likenesses of the various kachinas are used to help to teach Hopi children the tribal religion and traditions. Each child receives a doll made especially for him by his male relatives. He treasures the doll and studies it so that he can learn to recognised and respect the host of spirit kachinas that people the Hopi world. Kachinas are difficult to classify because different Hopi pueblos have different ideas about their appearance and their functions. The late Dr Harold Colton identified 266 different kinds of kachina dolls, and in this book he describes the meaning, the making, and the principal features of all of them.
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