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Chowilawu, which means "terrible power," is a Hopi kachina that is considered invisible and so is not often represented by kachina dolls or seen in public. This kachina only appears just before the Niman Kachina Dance when a boy is initiated into the Pawamu fraternity.
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Colton, Harold Sellers
1959 Hopi Kachina Dolls: With a Key to Their Identification. Albuquerque: University of
New Mexico Press.