"Dance of the Kachina Dolls" genre: Native American
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	Dance of the Kachina Kachinas are the spirit essence of everything in the real world. Their essence is inferred from the steam which rises from food and whose loss does not change the form of the food, to the mist rising from a spring on a cold morning or the cloud which forms above the mountaintop. Kachinas are not deities, but supernatural beings that dwell in an invisible world until they are given form in the parallel human world. There are more than 200 Kachina characters that possess characteristics of real life personalities or represent plants or animals The dance of the Kachina offers the children a real-life connection with the Kachina spirits. Kachinas give the little girls Kachina dolls as a remembrance of the ceremony and to help her remember the messages of the Kachinas Kachinas many times represent spirits of nature. The Kachinas represent game, domestic plants and animals, birds, insects, even death itself. The creative force of the sun and the abstract power inherent in neighboring tribes are visualized as Kachinas. Kachinas are supernaturals, embodying the spirits of living things and also the spirits of ancestors who have died and become a part of nature. Kachinas are believed to possess powers over nature, especially the weather, but higher gods limit the extent of their powers. The Kachinas are not worshiped, but rather are treated as friends or partners who are interested in th the welfare of the tribe. They give substance to the immaterial, becoming in the process intermediaries between the physical and the spirit world.
	Label: Deboer Designs Credits: Written by: John De Boer

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