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Kachinas are gods or spirits. Hopi dancers often emulate them in their rituals.
Hopi tradition maintains that Kachina costumes bestow magical powers upon the wearer.
Katsinas of Hopi Powamu Ceremony, Walpi Pueblo, Arizona, 1893, James Mooney, Bureau of American Ethnology.
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