USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Kachinas are typically portrayed in elaborately carved wooden dolls adorned with the costumes and masks that identify them. The Hopi and other Pueblo peoples use these dolls to teach their children about the hundreds of different kachinas.

Detailed explanation-2: -Kachina dolls originated with the Hopi tribe. The Hopi were the first indigenous peoples to create kachina dolls to teach children about their history and tradition.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Kachina doll of the Hopi, which so many of us admire and collect, is the representation of a Hopi spirit or deity. Kachina dolls originally were, and still are, made to be given away as gifts to Hopi children so that they may learn the different Kachinas and the stories and religious significance attached to them.

Detailed explanation-4: -Kachina cults probably made their first appearance among the pueblos of the Southwest around the 13th and 14th centuries, according to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology’s On-line Exhibition Internet site, although their prototypes may have arrived considerably earlier, some archaeologists have argued.

Detailed explanation-5: -Kachina dolls are given to Hopi children during certain ceremonies to enculturate their children about that particular kachina. Cosmologies of the Hopi and Zuni cultures demonstrate concepts of duality, opposition and spiritual personification.