Hopi Ceremonial Frames From Cañon de Chelly, Arizona

This publication details the rites and ceremonies of the Hopi Indians and uses that information to study this tribe's ethnology. Some of "the ceremonies are strange and seemingly barbaric to modern society. They are so complex that a non-Hopi would have to study for years to be able to fathom the meaning of the preparations, the rituals, the spirituality instilled in them and the faith derived from them -- yet the simplicity of the concept is so profoundly beautiful," according to the tex