Book
Hopi Kachinas
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation • New York • Published In 1971 • Pages:
By: Kennard, Edward A. (Edward Allan), Earle, Edwin.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The dances and ceremonials of the Pueblo Indians are some of the most colorful and elaborate performances still carried on by Native Americans in the United States. This source, which focuses on the Hopi of Oraibi in the 1930s, presents a detailed study of the various dance and ceremonial dramas which play such an important role in the lives of the people, creating and sustaining a sense of well-being between man the spirit world of the Kachinas. Kennard's text provides much information on the role of the Kachinas in Hopi life, the masks and other materials used to impersonate these spirits in the ceremonials, the annual ceremonial cycle at Oraibi, the intricate (e. g., Powama and Kachina society initiation ceremonies). The text is beautifully illustrated with paintings (plates 1-28) depicting the various Kachina spirits as impersonated in the dances.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Organized ceremonial
- Dance
- Representative art
- Sodalities
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hopi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Artist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1988
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1932-1938
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1930s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Oraibi Pueblo, northeastern Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Edwin Earle. Text by Edward A. Kennard
- plates repaginated as pp. 51-107
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-50)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 71139867
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hopi Indians