Chapter I: Front Matter

THE HOPI INDIANS

By WALTER HOUGH

Curator Division of Ethnology,
United States National Museum,
Washington, D. C.

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CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA
THE TORCH PRESS, 1915

Copyright
1915
By The Torch Press
_April_

LITTLE HISTORIES
OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS

Number Four

_IN THE SAME SERIES_

THE NAVAHO

By Oscar H. Lipps
Supervisor in Charge, U. S. Indian School,
Carlisle, Penn.

With map and illustration in three colors

THE IOWA

By William Harvey Miner

With map and illustrations in halftone

THE INDIANS OF GREATER NEW YORK

By Alanson Skinner
Assistant Curator of Anthropology,
American Museum of Natural History,
New York

With a map of the region

Each Volume 12mo, $1.00 net
Delivery extra

_To My Wife_

CONTENTS

The Country, Towns, and Peoples 13

Social Life 28

Food and Rearing 49

The Workers 69

Amusements 102

Birth, Marriage, and Death 114

Religious Life 132

Myths 179

Traditions and History 201

Brief Biographies 218

The Ancient People 250

Index 263

MESA FOLK OF HOPILAND

_PREFACE_

Whoever visits the Hopi falls perforce under the magic influence of their life and personality. If anyone entertains the belief that "a good Indian is a dead Indian," let him travel to the heart of the Southwest and dispel his illusions in the presence of the sturdy, self-supporting, self-respecting citizens of the pueblos. Many sojourns in a region whose fascinations are second to no other, experiences that were happy and associations with a people who interest all coming in contact with them combined to indite the following pages. If the writer may seem biased in favor of the "Quaker Indians," as Lummis calls them, be it known that he is moved by affection not less than by respect for the Hopi and moreover believes that his commendations are worthily bestowed.

The recording of these sidelights on the Hopi far from being an irksome task has been a pleasure which it is hoped may be passed on to the reader, who may here receive an impression of a tribe of Indians living at the threshold of modern civilizing influences and still retaining in great measure the life of the ancient house-builders of the unwatered lands.

To Mr. F. W. Hodge of the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, a fellow worker in the Pueblo field, grateful acknowledgments are due for his criticism and advice in the preparation of this book. The frontispiece is by that distinguished amateur P. G. Gates of Pasadena. Under the auspices of the explorations carried on by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, for the Bureau of American Ethnology, the writer had in 1896 his first introduction to the Hopi, a favor and a pleasure that will always be remembered with gratitude on his part. The indebtedness of science to the researches of Dr. Fewkes among the Hopi is very great and this book has profited by his inspiration as well as by his counsel.