Image: Kachina dolls

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Description: Drawings from an 1894 anthropology book of Kachina dolls (tihu-tui) representing kachinas, or spirits, made by the native Pueblo people of the Southwestern U.S. The dolls are made of carved cottonwood and traditionally given to children. The figures are identified on p. 74 of the source as representing the kachinas: 37.Si-o-S(h)a-li-ko 38.Si-o-ka-tci-na 39.Co-tuk-i-nun-wu 40.La-puk-ti 41.Do-mas-ka-tci-na 42.Tcuc-ku-ti 43.Si-o-sa-li-ko. Alterations to image: removed plate number.
Title: Kachina dolls
Credit: Downloaded May 23, 2009 from Jesse Walter Fewkes (1894) Dolls of the Tusayan Indians, E.J. Brill, Leiden, Netherlands, Plate 11] on Google Books. The image was signed "PWMTimp" in lower left corner and "R. Raar Lith" in center.
Author: Jesse Walter Fewkes
Permission: Public domain - Fewkes died in 1930
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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