Produced by Brian Sogard, Rachael Schultz, Sam W. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) THE HOPI INDIANS By WALTER HOUGH Curator Division of Ethnology, United States National Museum, Washington, D. C. [Publisher's device] 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 [Illustration: A MADONNA AMONG THE MOKI _Photo by P. G. Gates_] _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.