Kachinas represent spiritual beings in the Hopi religion and are believed to live on the San Francisco Peaks near Flagstaff, Arizona. Native American Hopi and Zuñi Pueblo Indian perform religious ceremonies in which masked men (never women) impersonate supernatural beings.
Small carved kachina "Tihus" or dolls are made by Hopi Pueblo Indians to represent these supernatural beings, carved, painted and decorated and given to young girls by their fathers or uncles (usually).
These color book kachina images are just a small representation of the hundreds of kachinas in existance.
