THE KACHINAS ARE COMING—Pueblo Indian Kachina Dolls with Related Folktales [SOLD]

THE KACHINAS ARE COMING—Pueblo Indian Kachina Dolls with Related Folktales

By Gene Meany Hodge

Foreword by Dr. Frederick Webb Hodge

Publisher: Northland Press, Flagstaff, 1967

Hardcover, first edition published in 1936 by Bruce McAllister

This hardcover edition published in 1967 by Northland Press

Author autographed copy, 129 pages, eighteen color plates, excellent new condition

Contents

The Shálako, or Coming of the Gods

Why Ants are so Thin (From H. R. Voth, Traditions of the Hopi)

The Return of the Corn Maids (From Ruth L. Bunzel, Zuñi Katcinas)

The K’yáklu Being and the Duck (From F. H. Cushing, Zuñi Creation Myths)

Tihkuyi Creates the Game Animals (From E. S. Curtis, The North American Indian)

The Foster Child of the Deer (From F. H. Cushing, Zuñi Folk Tales)

How the Deer Got Their Red Eyes (From Elsie Clews Parsons, Isleta Pueblo)

How the Corn-pests were Trapped (From F. H. Cushing, Zuñi Folk Tales)

Why Kachinas Wear Eagle Feathers (From Ruth L. Bunzel, Zuñi Katcinas)

The Cock and the Mouse (From F. H. Cushing, Zuñi Folk Tales)

The War Chiefs Abandon Iatiku (From Leslie A. White, The Acoma Indians)

How the Twin War Gods Stole the Thunder-stone and the Lightning-shaft (From F. H. Cushing, Zuñi Folk Tales)

The Chiro Birds and the Coyote (From H. R. Voth, Traditions of the Hopi)

How Rattlesnakes Came to be What they are (From F. H. Cushing, Zuñi Folk Tales)

How Bees Learned to Fly and how Peaches became Sweet (From H. R. Voth, Traditions of the Hopi)

The Niman Kachina, or Going Home of the Gods