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Kachina Dolls

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

Kachina Dolls might be used to instruct girls about katsinas the immortal beings.

Kachina Dolls depict katsinas or katsinam, the immortal beings that bring rain, control other aspects of the society

Kachina Dolls depict katsinas or katsinam, and act as messengers between humans and the spirit world.

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