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Jesse Walter Fewkes was keenly interested in the history and culture of the Hopi people, and spent much of his career studying and documenting the legends and ceremonies of the Hopi people. He was even accepted into the Flute and Antelope societies. Most of the archaeological work he did attempted to explain the archaeological remains he unearthed by using Hopi clan migration traditions. This is why he had returned to Flagstaff--to see if he could find information that would relate certain Hopi clans to the Flagstaff area. In addition, he felt there was a gap in his archaeological knowledge of the remains between the Navajo country and the Verde Valley. An example of the application of the natural history method is concerned with the artifacts resulting from the exploration of Sikyatki in 1895, during which hundreds of pieces of decorated pottery were excavated. Applying the interpretation of the art motives used in the decoration of ancient Hopi religious paraphernalia given him by the priests, Dr. Fewkes was able for the first time to fix the meaning of the Sikyatki symbolic designs.
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Jesse Walter Fewkes (1850-1930) began studying the Snake Ceremony in 1891 and continued for six years.
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- PublisherRio Grande Press
- Publication date1971
- ISBN 10 087380080X
- ISBN 13 9780873800808
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages752
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Excerpt: people claim to be descendants of those who once lived in the now deserted villages of that province.I had some knowledge of the ethnology of the Hopi, derived from several summers\' field work among them, and I believed this information could be successfully utilized in an attempt to solve certain archeological questions which presented themselves.[2] I desired, among other things, to obtain new information on the former extension, in one direction, of the ancestral abodes of certain clans of the sedentary people of Tusayan which are now limited to six pueblos in the northeastern part of the territory. In carrying out this general plan I made an examination of cliff dwellings and other ruins in Verde valley, and undertook an exploration of two old pueblos near the Hopi villages. The reason which determined my choice of the former as a field for investigation was a wish to obtain archeological data bearing on certain Tusayan traditions. It is claimed by the traditionists of Walpi, especially those. Seller Inventory # AMPLE087380080X
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