Tawa (Sun) Kachina

[Close-up of Saiastasa-Zuni Kachina doll, uncommon rain priest. Eames House (Case Study House No. 8), Los Angeles, California]

[Saiastasa-Zuni Kachina doll, uncommon rain priest. Eames House (Case Study House No. 8), Los Angeles, California]

[Hopi Kachina figures at the Eames House (Case Study House No. 8), Los Angeles, California]

[Hopi Kachina figures at the Eames House (Case Study House No. 8), Los Angeles, California]

A giant American, Indian-style Kachina doll welcomes visitors to Gallup, a small city near the Arizona border in far-western New Mexico

A huge kachina doll figure with the name "Myrtle" at the National Route 66 Museum in Elk City, Oklahoma, along the historic "Mother Road" that ran (and still does in limited stretches) ...

A human-sized kachina doll of the smaller sort figures carved, typically from cottonwood roots, by Hopi people, displayed outside the Fort Cody Trading Post, Nebraska's largest souvenir and western gift store, in ...

[Head of Hopi Kachina figure at the Eames House (Case Study House No. 8), Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California]

[Head of Hopi Kachina figure at the Eames House (Case Study House No. 8), Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California]

[Head of Hopi Kachina figure at the Eames House (Case Study House No. 8), Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California]

[Hopi Kachina figure at the Eames House (Case Study House No. 8), Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California]

[Head of Hopi Kachina figure at the Eames House (Case Study House No. 8), Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California]

[Head of Hopi Kachina figure at the Eames House (Case Study House No. 8), Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California]

[Group of Hopi Kachina figures at the Eames House (Case Study House No. 8), Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California]

[Kachina figure from Ralph Ellison's art collection in front of potted plant]

Kachina

The Masked Kachinas (Hopi Indian "Rain-makers"), Village of Shonghopavi, Arizona

Chief of the Kachina Dance at the Moki (Cliff Dwellers) Village of Sichomovi, Arizona

Jesters and sacred "Rain bringers" (Kachinas), Hopi Indian village of Oraibi, Arizona

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