Traditionally, Pueblo Indians, including the Hopi and Zuni, mark important cultural events by dressing in colorful masks and costumes and dancing to invoke their spirits, called katsinam (commonly ...

LITTLE ROCK — Bob Vangilder sat in his living room as American Indian Kachina dolls stood guard all around him. "Everyone is proud to be an Indian now, but it wasn't always like that," he said. Bob ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Native American art has taken on many forms, ...

From a traditional cradle doll hand-painted with natural pigments to a contemporary, intricate belly-ache doll dressed in feathers, no two Kachina dolls made by Hopi artist Sylvan Sahmea are exactly ...

An hour and a half northwest of Flagstaff, Arizona, Hopi carvers carry on a tradition that has been passed down from father to son for generations. The product of that tradition, hand-carved Kachina ...

We recently had a project involving Southwest art, in which we fell in love with the items we were appraising. The largest section of this project had to do with Kachina dolls. We knew they were ...

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 ...

Kachina dolls, embodying the beliefs, social structure and moral values of the Native American Hopi have fascinated and inspired artists for a century. Andre Breton, the founder of the surrealist ...

Joe Day has lived on the Hopi reservation for over 20 years with his wife Janice, who is Hopi. He considers himself one of the reservation's token bahanas-- the Hopi word for white man. "I live on the ...

Ann Harithas, artist, curator and art collector, is inspired by the culture that surrounded her growing up as well as American Indian culture and other influences. Harithas, 79, a collage artist, grew ...