Chowilawu

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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.