Carving Traditional Style Kachina Dolls

This book is written for beginning and intermediate wood carvers interested in carving a traditional Hopi kachina—style doll. Tom Moore, a respected kachina—style doll carver for forty years, provides historical information about the evolution of kachina dolls and kachina carvings. He traces the art form from the early days, when the dolls were intended to be educational toys for children, until modern times, when they became wood sculptures collected by non—Hopis, costing thousands of doll...