Identifier: cu31924028656738 (find matches)
Title: American Indians : first families of the Southwest
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Huckel, John Frederick, 1863-1936 Harvey, Fred
Subjects: Indians of North America
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : F. Harvey
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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AN ARIZONA SQUALL Digitized by IVIicrosoft® The Hopis Theory of the Origin of Man Until the Christians came the Hopi had no conception of one Great Spiritcorresponding to God, although they have always been pre-eminently a religiouspeople. They defied the nature powers, the Sky God and the Mother Earth—the one the Father and the other the Mother of the races of men. In their mythol-ogy the human race was not created, but was generated by the Grand Canyon.While the other Pueblo tribes have accepted the teachings of the missionaries toa more or less extent, the Hopi still adhere to their primitive beliefs and rites.Their religious ceremonies, in which rain and growth of crops are the underlyingmotive, are usually held in the kiva, an underground chamber. No women arepermitted to enter the kiva except to bring food to the celebrants. Some of theseceremonials last nine days. Musically their religious songs possess real merit. Digitized by IVIicrosoft®
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Digitized by IVIicrosoft® A Hopi St. John Unconsciously the primitive people group themselves with an effect pleasingto the eye of the artist—they make the picture to a degree that deliberateposing can seldom reach. There is an example of this in the picture of the Hopimother and the two children, a painting from a photographic study. The littlefigure with leg gracefully poised, a mystical smile illuminating his face, might wellbe a St. John by one of the old masters and a Hopi St. John could properlybe the title for the illustration. But even then, these little Hopi are hardly fairspecimens, for both boys and girls have unusually good features. Mishongnovi, the pueblo where this picture was made, is in northeasternArizona, and its name signifies at the place of the other which remains erect.It refers to two stone pillars, one of which has fallen, the sole remains of the oldpueblo abandoned in 1680. The village that took its place now has a populationof about 200. Digitized by IVIi

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