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Phoenix is the place to see a great collection of Hopi katsinas
When Hopi dancers put on the masks and garb of their katsinas, a ritual that dates to time immemorial, they are putting on far more: their identity. “The Hopi Indians represent their gods in several ways,” wrote anthropologist Jesse Walter Fewkes in 1899, “one of which is by personation–by wearing masks or garments bearing symbols that are regarded as characteristic [...]