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Definition of Kachina
1. Noun. A masked dancer during a Pueblo religious ceremony who is thought to embody some particular spirit.
2. Noun. A deified spirit of the Pueblo people.
3. Noun. A carved doll wearing the costume of a particular Pueblo spirit; usually presented to a child as a gift.
Definition of Kachina
1. Noun. A system or cult of (often secret) religious rituals and ceremonies involving masks and dances concerned with bringing rain and good crops and with community welfare and integration found in typically western Pueblo cultures in the North American Southwest. ¹
2. Noun. The vaguely ancestral anthropomorphic entities ("raw people" in Zuni terminology) that are associated with clouds and rain, that personify the power in the sun, the earth, corn (among other things), that are responsible for rain production and crop welfare, that are impersonated in Puebloan kachina cult dances and masked ceremonies. ¹
3. Noun. The masked dancers that represent the kachina supernaturals in ceremonial dances. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Kachina
1. an ancestral spirit [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kachina
Literary usage of Kachina
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Stability and Variation in Hopi Song by George List (1993)
"The songs sung at the kachina dances are usually composed for the occasion by
individual Hopi men. Some men have developed a reputation as composers and the ..."
2. Indians of the Southwest by Pliny Earle Goddard (1913)
"They are represented in the dances by men who are masked and painted Jto •
correspond to the traditional conception of the appearance of each kachina. ..."
3. Indian Blankets and Their Makers by George Wharton James (1914)
"CHAPTER XVII kachina or Yd Blankets TN THE Hopi and Zuni pantheons there are
certain divinities of greater or ... 199, and these are called kachina baskets. ..."
4. Folk Art Projects North America by Yvonne Despard (1997)
"Native American kachina is a Hopi word with three meanings. ... kachina Dolls:
An Educational Coloring Book by Linda Spizzirri; Spizzirri Publishing, 1982. ..."
5. A Supplement to A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in by Daythal Kendall, John F. Freeman (1982)
"... whether Antelope clan has a special relation to the kachina cult (as suggested
at Laguna). [137] Re: possible publications of White's Acoma monograph. ..."
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