KATCINAS
- KATCINA, (Am. Ind.) a doll representing rain-bringing Hopi ancestors also KACHINA, KATCHINA, KATSINA [n]
- any of various ancestral spirits deified by the Hopi Indians and impersonated in religious rituals by masked dancers
- Hopi religious ritual at which such masked dancers perform
- masked dancer impersonating such a spirit at a Hopi religious ritual
- KATCINA, kachina (an ancestral spirit) [n]