Are the Navajo ye’ii analogous or comparable to the Hopi kachinas?
I suppose someone might say so, but only in the same way that other religious figures such as Jesus Christ and Buddha might be compared to each other as central in their respective faiths. Navajo ye’ii are holy people with their own significance, history and set of associated rituals, quite distinct from the Hopi Kachinas, who are considered to be messengers to the gods, with their own symbolism, histories and rituals. —ALH Why don’t you have a catalogue or could you sell a CD of the program that’s on that learning computer in the museum lobby? Catalogues, like all other worthy books, take a long time to develop and require special funding to produce and publish. Such time and money was not planned into this project. The original exhibit resulted, in fact, from two books that I just published in the two years preceding the opening of the museum exhibit in 2004 (and which were each in the works for MANY years before that). What you are viewing now is an online version of the entire exhi
