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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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irst story held out. In this store-room corn was stacked up as neatly as cord wood; great earthen-ware vesselscontained the water supply; pumpkins, dried peaches and watermelons wereheaped up for the winter, for the Hopi have always been good farmers and fruitgrowers. The fields and orchards are on the slopes and at the foot of the mesa, asare the springs and as they were centuries ago. The second floor of a Hopi house is usually the living room, with a floor of hardclay, neat and clean; the walls are tinted. Niches in the walls contain vessels ofclay for cooking purposes; from pegs in the walls and the ceiling are suspendedclothes, childrens playthings and similar objects of the household. The Hopi women are the house builders, and at the same time the houseowners. Husband has the privilege of the household, just so long as he is on hisgood behavior, and wife is the sole judge. One lapse and he finds his clothes, tiedin a neat bundle, just outside the door. Digitized by IVIicrosoft®
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TAKING THE ELEVATOR, HOPILAND Digitized by IVIicrosoft® In a Hopi Beauty Parlor When the little Hopi girl becomes of a marriageable age a change in coiffureannounces it to the pueblos society. The proud mother takes her daughter inhand and arranges her hair in great whorls at the sides of the head, in imitationof the squash blossoms. In Hopiland the squash flower is the symbol of purity.The pride of the mother and full satisfaction of the daughter are shown plainly inthe illustration. On marriage the squash blossom head dress is abandoned; thehair of the women is then parted in the middle and hangs in two strands over theshoulders in front. The young people have good features—straight noses, high cheek bones, anda skin in which the reddish hue is quite marked. The hair is usually straight andblack, but in some few instances it is wavy and brown. Strangely there are anumber of Albinos among the Hopi. Industry is a tribal trait and they show great skill in weaving and dyeingcotton an

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