Kachina Dolls come from the Hopi Native American tradition. These dolls embody the spirit in whose likeness they were fashioned. There are many different Kachinas which all represent either the spirit of an animal or conceptual ideas. "Each year Kachinas come, they walk upon the earth and they dance to bring life and renewal. When the Kachinas return to the spirit world at the end of the planting, they return with prayers of the Hopi that we might all continue on this earth for another round in the circle of life." These dolls are given as gifts as a sort of well wish for health and wealth in the next year.
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