The Navajo Warrior Kachina Doll Information and Meaning

The Warrior Kachina is most often seen as a guard during the Powamu and Pachava ceremonies. Occasionally he appears as a warrior against the Clown Kachinas. He also serves as a policeman to oversee the cleaning o f the springs.  The Warrior Kachina is also known as the  Ewior Kachina.

The Mastop Hopi Kachina Folklore and History

The Mastop Kachina is the second kachina to appear on Third Mesa. He is not present on Second or First Mesa. These Kachinas always arrive in pairs and come bounding out of the northwest on the next to the last day of the Soyal. As they rush into the village they beat all the dogs that they encounter using the short black and white staff which they carry for that purpose. Leaping about with many antic gestures, they make their way to the Chief Kiva where they talk in disguised voices with the Chief Kiva where they talk in disguised voices with the individuals inside and with each other. Then, as though suddenly becoming aware of the females in the audience, they dash madly into a cluster of women and grab their shoulders from behind and they give a series of small hops indicating copulation. Then they return to kiva and converse for a while before again dashing over to another group of women, repeating the action until nearly every woman present from child to the very oldest has been approached. All women, even the shy ones, do not avoid this embrace as it is a serious fertility rite despite the antic touches, which are never directed towards the women.

Male Ogre Kachina Doll Information and Meaning

There are many different types of Ogre Kachinas, but they all pretty much the same in their duties at the ceremonies. They demand food from the people, in return they will not take the children away from their parents. They also are the disciplinarians. of the children and adults who do not help with the daily duties of the clan.

Information and Meaning of Navajo Hummingbird Kachina Doll

The Navajo Hummingbird Kachina doll appears during the dances of the Soyohim or Kiva dances. He is very fast Kachina so he may appear as a runner. When he catches a person then he whips him with a yucca whip, if he loses then he gives them a prize.

The Standing Watermelon Clown Kachina Folklore and Meaning

Navajo Clown Kachina

The clown is the conscience of the people. They provide amusement during pauses in the Kachina Dance or the levity for the seriousness of a major ceremony. The clown Kachina provides lessons in behavior during their performance.

The meaning of the Navajo Antelope Kachina Doll

This Kachina like the deer kachina, helps in the dance for rain and germination of the seed. Also he is a healing Kachina but not as powerful as the Bear or Badger Kachina.

The Navajo Kachina Tsitoto Meaning

Considered one of the Chief Kachinas, he is a bean dancer. Very little is known about this dancer, one story states the he provides his own water at the ceremonies.

The meaning behind the Hopi Kachina Ahola

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ahola is an important chief kachina for both First and Second Mesa as he opens the Powamu ceremony with a kive performance on the first night. This performance seems to involve mimetic magic to slow the passage of the sun. At a shrine in the “Gap” of First Mesa the next day an additional rite is performed as the sun rises. With daybreak Ahul and the Powamu Chief deposit pahos (prayer feathers) at Kachina spring, for he is the ancient one he led the people from the San Francisco Peaks eastward as far as the great river and then westward to where they were stopped by the turbulent waters and where their houses still stand. After going to the Kachina Spring, Ahola and the Powamu Chief then visit all the kivas and houses with ceremonial associations, disturbing the Powamu Chief’s bean and corn plants and marking the entrances with four stripes of meal, thereby appealing to the Cloud Chiefs to sit over these places. At the end of this ceremony Ahola descends to a shrine where he bows for times to the Sun and asks for long life, health, hapiness and good crops for his children.

The Navajo Eagle Dancer Kachina Meaning

Eagle Dancer Kachina

One of the most favorite of all the dancers is the Eagle Kachina. Dancing in the mixed and kiva in the early spring. He dances to imitate the motion of the eagle and prayer for many more eagles. In ceremonies the Eagle Dancer is treated as an honored guest and are given many presents.

Navajo Hemis Kachina

Hemis Kachina – Navajo

When the time comes to leave for their home on top of the San Francisco Peaks in Northern Arizona. The ceremony is called the Niman (going home). Any Kachina may lead this procession and it normally is done by the Hemis Kachina.