"ka", part of the word kachina, the Hopi spirits, of which Masau'u was one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

This is another ethnic kachina, Kumance, a Comanche.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zuni Rock Art Blogging 3] Reference

He'd been kneeling and staring at the kachina for forty minutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jed the Dead]

The room was no suite and it didn't take long to find the kachina.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jed the Dead]

My one inspirational object on my desk is probably my kachina doll.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inspiration through horology « Write Anything] Reference

Certainly an extremely rare type of kachina and without a doubt very valuable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jed the Dead]

Archaeologists had believed that the kachina cult developed in Arizona in the thirteenth century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hueco Tanks Carbon Dates] Reference

He tried to remember if that fit the description for this particular kachina, but he wasn't sure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jed the Dead]

Rising from his crouch, he drew his hand back from the kachina and turned to survey his surroundings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jed the Dead]

The forty minutes he'd spent crouching and holding the kachina had given him back something he was sure he'd lost forever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jed the Dead]

Members of those clans don masks that represent the kachinas, and in wearing the mask the spirit of the kachina takes over the person.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zuni Rock Art Blogging 3] Reference

I have been fortunate enough to attend four kachina dances at Zuni, and have seen Sayatasha and a number of other kachinas depicted here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zuni Rock Art Blogging 3] Reference

She adds that the early dates also resolve a controversy about the origin of the Pueblo kachina cult, a form of ancestor worship meant to induce rainfall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hueco Tanks Carbon Dates] Reference

Rangers, researchers and naturalists, from seasonal to superintendent, could be counted on to have park posters on the walls, a kachina or two on the shelves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Lure]

The early dates for the mask pictographs at Hueco Tanks, which are stylistically similar to kachina masks, suggest an early origin among the Mogollon peoples of West Texas and southern New Mexico.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hueco Tanks Carbon Dates] Reference

A Hopi katsina, or kachina, is a deified spirit of the Pueblo people, which includes the Hopis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arizona Daily Wildcat] Reference

This design closely resembles a pattern that is commonly embroidered upon the large white “kachina,” or ceremonial blankets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

Excavations of the ruins over the last 25 years have allowed archaeologists to document the beginnings of kachina figures in Hopi spiritual practices.    From Wordnik.com.  [azcentral.com | news] Reference

"There's a lot of info about them, and they have information that helps people to be able to look at and identify what kachina is being depicted on the basket," Dittemore said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arizona Daily Wildcat] Reference

kachina, for example, also denotes one of the elaborately masked dancers who impersonate a kachina at agricultural ceremonies, and yeibichai and shalako similarly have the same kind of dual usage.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3] Reference

A hot kachina who wants into mine.    From Wordnik.com.  [kevynwight Diary Entry] Reference

A kachina of real power, he knew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jed the Dead]

Verily it was the strangest kachina.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jed the Dead]

The kachina on the left is Wo'latana, the Bear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zuni Rock Art Blogging 3] Reference

This is Hehe'a, the Blunderer kachina, a clown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zuni Rock Art Blogging 3] Reference

To press firmly against the back of the kachina.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jed the Dead]

This is Atoshle, a male "scare" kachina, an ogre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zuni Rock Art Blogging 3] Reference

17 views tags: kachina petroglyph photos doodlebugs says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

1,000-year-old stone carvings in Ecuador and New Mexico, and in Arizona the Hopi supplied a shawl woven with zigzags and kachina faces.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

"I remember kachina dances.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boat of a Million Years]