The end of winter through July is the time of festivals, and kachina spirits return to the Hopi villages. The men, giving up their earthly personas, dress as kachinas and dance and sing in public ...

It was just extraordinary." In Hopi theology, kachinas are supernatural messengers depicted in fantastical costumes worn during religious ceremonies. There are several hundred spirit characters in ...

PHOENIX -- In a Paris courtroom Thursday morning, a civil judge is scheduled to decide whether to block Friday's planned sale of about 70 Hopi religious masks, known as kachinas, by a French ...

a popular tourist stop on the way to the Grand Canyon. He mostly sells carved wooden kachina dolls made by Hopi artists. Day explains that the carvings depict spirits who represent everything from ...

An older kachina doll was appraised at the Mobile, Alabama, show. A missionary who worked on the First Mesa in Arizona in 1895 bought the doll from the Hopi before she left to return home.

The club has recently announced plans to expand the use of its kachina logo, a move that has upset some Hopi leaders at a time of heightened sensitivity toward Native Americans in big-time sports.

The Brigham Young University''s Museum of Peoples and Cultures is currently displaying the Kachinas and the Hopi Worlds exhibit. The exhibit explores the conflict between the Hopi''s traditional ...

Contemporary Hopi Kachina Dolls is a handy reference book for collectors of the carved and painted wooden figures. The Hopi have traditionally created kachinas as symbols of the spirits and dancers ...

The Liriodendron Foundation in Bel Air will host an exhibit of Hopi Indian Style Kachina Dolls collected and also carved by Harford County Council President Richard Slutzky. A reception with the ...