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Kachina Dolls

Kachina Dolls are figures carved, most frequently of cottonwood root, by Hopi people and will have differing uses.

Kachina Dolls can be used to instruct girls about katsinas or katsinam the immortal beings.

Kachina Dolls represent katsinas, the immortal beings that bring rain, control other aspects of the natural order

Kachina Dolls depict katsinas, and serve as messengers between humanity and the spirit world.

Kachina Dolls represent katsinas or katsinam and derive from Hopi katsina figures known as tithu or katsintithu in the Hopi language.