Lexicographical Neighbors of Katchinas
Literary usage of Katchinas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Grand Canyon of Arizona: How to See it by George Wharton James (1910)
"Hopi katchinas. The Hopi Ethnologic Collection (on second floor) is the best in the
... Of these katchinas much might be written. They are ancient ancestral ..."
2. The Indians of the Painted Desert Region: Hopis, Navahoes, Wallapais, Havasupais by George Wharton James (1903)
"Of katchinas much might be written. They are ancient ancestral representatives of
... In the carrying out of this conception men personate the katchinas, ..."
3. Handicraft by Arthur Carey, Frederic Allen Whiting, Huger Elliott, National League of Handicraft Societies, Carl Purington Rollins, Society of Arts and Crafts (1903)
"The katchinas are supposed to come to the earth from the underworld in February
and remain until July, when they say farewell. Hence there are two specific ..."
4. Aboriginal American Basketry: Studies in a Textile Art Without Machinery by Otis Tufton Mason (1904)
"Examples of katchinas are shown in Places 85 and 93. ... In many of the intricate
symbols on the katchinas the narrow limitations of the material and the ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... katchinas' (15th Report of Bureau of American Ethnology) ; Fletcher, A.
C, «The Kako: A Pawnee Ceremony' (in 22d ..."
6. Basis of American History, 1500-1900 by Livingston Farrand (1906)
"The following may be noted: "Provisional List of Annual Ceremonies at
Walpi" (Internationales Archiv fur Ethnographic, VIII., 1895), "Tusayan katchinas ..."
7. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1897)
"Preliminary account of an expedition to the cliff villages of the Red 1897, p 16.
6. Tusayan katchinas; from the 15th annual report of the Bureau of Rock ..."
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