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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f Other CenturiesReproduced Almost at the edge of the Grand Canyon and adjoining El Tovar hotelstands a Hopi village, an exact reproduction of a typical home of a hundred yearsago. It is three stories high and is of rough stone, just as the Hopi of othergenerations built the community houses that were forts as well. While this is distinctively a Hopi house in design and construction it is primarilya museum of the Indian arts and crafts, and selected representatives of severaltribes demonstrate their work there. The potters, the blanket weavers and thebasket makers, men and women, may be seen here, pursuing the arts as did theirancestors centuries before them. Several rooms of the Hopi house are given over to collections of blankets,pottery and basketry that have been on exhibition in the international expositions.The result of years of search among the people of mountain, plain and desert, theyare known and valued by students of early America the world over. Digitized by IVIicrosoft®
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NAVAHO INDIANS HOPl HOUSEGRAND CANYON, ARIZONA Digitized by IVIicrosoft® Replica of a Kiva, Where the Hopi Held Sacred Ceremonials Secret societies have been in existence among the Hopi for centuries andthey performed their rites in underground rooms, or kivas. An exact reproductionof the interior of one of these ceremonial chambers is maintained in the HopiHouse, Grand Canyon. The altar shown here is that of the Powamu society.The god of germination is represented by the largest of the three idols, the nextis the god of thunder and the small black figure is Pookong, the god of war. The banquette, or wall seat, about three sides of the room, is used by theassisting priests. The floor is of rough flat stones, loosely fitted together, theinterstices occupied by smaller stones. On the walls are symbolic drawings. What appears to be a rug in the foreground is in reality a sand painting ormosaic. The mosaics of no two ceremonies are alike. In preparing them theIndian first sprinkles brown

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