Hopi Kachina Dolls: With a Key to Their Identification - Brossura

Colton, Harold S.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0826301800 ISBN 13: 9780826301802

Casa editrice: Univ of New Mexico Pr, 1970

Riassunto

A Hopi Indian will tell you that a kachina is a supernatural being who is impersonated by a man wearing a mask. Small wooden dolls carved in the likenesses of the various kachinas are used to help to teach Hopi children the tribal religion and traditions. Each child receives a doll made especially for him by his male relatives. He treasures the doll and studies it so that he can learn to recognised and respect the host of spirit kachinas that people the Hopi world. Kachinas are difficult to classify because different Hopi pueblos have different ideas about their appearance and their functions. The late Dr Harold Colton identified 266 different kinds of kachina dolls, and in this book he describes the meaning, the making, and the principal features of all of them.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of New Mexico Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1970
• ISBN 10: 0826301800
• ISBN 13: 9780826301802
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 150