kachina

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A vaguely ancestral anthropomorphic spirit being, associated with clouds and rain or personifying the power in the sun, the earth, or corn (among other things).
A wooden doll, as might be given to a child, which represents such a being.
A masked dancer who represents such a being in a ceremonial dance or masked ceremony.

/kəˈt͡ʃiː.nə/ /kəˈt͡ʃi.nə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-kachina.wav

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Borrowed from Hopi katsina.

kachina doll kachina figure

Niman Kachina San Francisco Peaks Soyal

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