The Hopi used this plant to make various articles, such as bows and arrows and prayer sticks and to decorate kachinas.
Nettl cites the Kachina dance songs as the most complex songs and the music of Hopi and Zuni as the most complex of the Pueblo, while Tanoan and Keresan music is simpler and intermediate between the Plains and western Pueblos.
For several years, two Bell helicopters from Kachina Helicopters were used under contract by the County.