Wholesale Lot of 48 Shalako Kachina Dolls.

This Wholsale Lot of Shalako Kachina Dolls is the perfect way to stock up your store or trading post. These highly collectible hand made Kachina Dolls come in miniture sizes. This is the way Kachina Dolls were made back in the fifties and sixties to make more accessible to children. These kachina Dolls have each been hand crafted out of wood and hand painted with traditional designs. This lot features some Crow Mothers, Long Hairs, and others. They range in height from 3-1/2" to 4-1/2". This set feature 48 individual Kachina Dolls. At $158.40 that puts each of these dolls at about $3.30! This also a great stock to have for selling on ebay! Please note, Richard has removed the feathers for international shipping reasons, so they have been discounted. You can decorate them yourself.

The Kachina dolls of today's art market are a bridge not only between the spiritual world and mortals but also between Hopis and non-Hopis. Each year Kachinas come, they walk upon the earth and they dance to bring life and renewal. When the Kachinas return to the spirit world at the end of the planting, they return with prayers of the Hopi that we might all continue on this earth for another round in the circle of life. There are more than 250 different kachinas, each with its own separate attributes, representing everything from animals to abstract concepts. The Hopi were the original Kachina doll carvers, using a single piece of cottonwood root. The Navajo began carving in their own creative way, adding leather, feather, beads and turquoise.