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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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e seizes it and slips itinto a buckskin sack. The reptiles are taken to the kiva and there transferred tothe snake jars. On the ninth day they are bathed in a basin of sacred water.The snakes glide about seeking escape, but the men and little boys herd themback with their whips. At sun-down the snakes are carried to the plaza, wherethere is singing and dancing. As one priest takes a snake in his mouth, the otherattracts its attention with the whip of feathers. When the dance is over thesnakes are carried to the foot of the mesa and set free. How is it that the priests—some of them boys—are not bitten ? There seemsto be only one answer—the Hopi snake priests understand rattlesnakes. Perhapsthe reckless confidence of the Indian makes the snake think more of flight thanfight. One thing is certain, the Indians do not draw the fangs or do anything elseto make the snakes harmless. Few Hopi priests have ever been known to sufferfrom the bite of a rattlesnake. Digitized by IVIicrosoft®
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U) u z< QUl< zen a.0I Digitized by IVIicrosoft® A Hopi Pueblo of 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 b

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