Kachinas have a rich and varied history beyond the fact that they are just wooden carved dolls for sale in Indian stores. Please click on the thumbnails below for the enlarged images of these traditionally hand-crafted Native American Kachina figures. The original Kachinas were supernatural beings and spirits.  These mainly benevolent entities once lived among the Indian peoples and taught them basic living skills for well-being.   These skills included:            How to hunt and make tools and other artefacts;            How to live in harmony with nature so as to bring rain and fertility to the ground;            How to heal sickness and measure out discipline;            The art of offering spiritual gratitude. When these original Kachinas left the pueblos, they imported their gifts to the people who still carry out heir traditions.   At the time a pueblo dancer assumes the masks and costumes of those ‘ancestral beings’, he imbues the power and characteristics of the particular Kachina, but he is not looked upon as a god, but merely as a symbol of one of the original kachinas.

Many of these items are 'one-offs' so for more information on the availablity of our Kachinas....
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