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What is a kachina?

What is a kachina? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Pueblo culture) 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).
  2. (Pueblo culture) A wooden doll, as might be given to a child, which represents such a being.
  3. (Pueblo culture) A masked dancer who represents such a being in a ceremonial dance or masked ceremony.
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The kachina dancers are sacred and represent the rain gods.
A modern relic of early culture, the kachina doll of the Pueblo Indians, while essentially an instructive sacred object, is played with by children as a means to learn the myths of their culture.
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.
The name of this kachina was Hair Eater, and he was supposed to cut off the hair if he beat the boy, but he never did beat him.
They will allow themselves to be seen by a community if its men properly perform a traditional ritual while wearing kachina masks and other regalia.
The array of historical treasures range from a butterfly kachina to a buckskin dress.

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