File:Kachina dolls.jpg

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English: Drawings from an 1894 anthropology book of Kachina dolls (tihu-tui) representing kachinas, or spirits, made by the native Pueblo people of the Southwestern U.S.
  • The dolls are made of carved cottonwood and traditionally given to children.
  • The figures are identified on p. 74 of the source as representing the kachinas:

37.Si-o-S(h)a-li-ko
38.Si-o-ka-tci-na
39.Co-tuk-i-nun-wu
40.La-puk-ti
41.Do-mas-ka-tci-na
42.Tcuc-ku-ti
43.Si-o-sa-li-ko.

Alterations to image: removed plate number.
Date
Source Downloaded May 23, 2009 from Jesse Walter Fewkes (1894) Dolls of the Tusayan Indians, E.J. Brill, Leiden, Netherlands, Plate 11] on Google Books. The image was signed "PWMTimp" in lower left corner and "R. Raar Lith" in center.
Author Jesse Walter Fewkes
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Public domain - Fewkes died in 1930

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