Book
Ritual in Pueblo art: Hopi life in Hopi painting
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation • 24 • Published In 1970 • Pages: vii, 81
By: Harvey, Byron.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source contains images of 185 paintings by native Hopi artists. All of these artworks were commissioned for this collection, and are permanently exhibited at the Museum of the American Indian in New York. Topics include: the life cycle; ritual life, including several important ceremonies and the Kachina cult; clowns and clowning; curing; and economic life, including farming, hunting and basketmaking. Biographical sketches of the artists are also provided. Each of the images (pp. 85-190) is described in the first half of the source (pp. 9-69).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Representative art
- Personal grooming
- Normal garb
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Magical and mental therapy
- Ornament
- Humor
- Postures
- Athletic sports
- Mats and basketry
- Gift giving
- Dwellings
- Masonry
- Dance
- Diet
- 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 TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Art Patron
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Christopher Latham ; 1988
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1964-1966
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1964-1966
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Hopi Pueblo, Second Mesa, northeastern Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Byron Harvey
- All information presented about the artworks, both in the text and in the images is indexed for Representative Art (532). Furthermore, every image and its corresponding text are indexed identical subjects. Thus the set of subjects under which each artwork is indexed is a compilation of information from both the image and the text.
- figures paginated as pp. 83-190
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-81)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 67030973
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hopi Indians