WALTERS. FRANK. Book of the Hopi. Drawing and source materials recorded by Oswald White Bear Fredericks. Second printing. New York, The Viking Press, 1964. XVII+348 p. With illustr. in colour and black and white + (24) p. of black and white illustr. cloth with yellow cloth spine lettered in light blue. Pictorial endpapers. ¶ In this book, thirty elders of the ancient Hopi tribe of Northern Arizona, a people who regards themselves as the first inhabitants of America, freely reveal the Hopi worldview for the first time in written form. The Hopi kept this view a secret for centuries, and anthropologists have long struggled to understand it. Now they record their myths and legends, and the meaning of their religious rituals and ceremonies, as a gift to future generations.
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