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    The Winter Solstice Altars at Hano Pueblo
    The Winter Solstice Altars at Hano Pueblo
    The Winter Solstice Altars at Hano Pueblo
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    The Winter Solstice Altars at Hano Pueblo

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Title: The Winter Solstice Altars at Hano Pueblo

      Author: J. Walter Fewkes

      Release Date: February 23, 2013 [EBook #42175]

      Language: English

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      THE WINTER SOLSTICE ALTARS AT

      HANO PUEBLO

      BY J. WALTER FEWKES

      (From the American Anthropologist (N.S.), Vol. 1, April, 1899)

      NEW YORK

      G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

      1899

      THE WINTER SOLSTICE ALTARS AT HANO

      PUEBLO

      By J. WALTER FEWKES

      Introduction

      The fetishes displayed in their kivas by different phratries during the Winter Solstice ceremony at the Hopi pueblo of Walpi, in northeastern Arizona, have been described in a previous article,[1] in which the altar made in the Moñkiva, or chief ceremonial chamber, by the Patki and related people has been given special attention. The author had hoped in 1898[2] to supplement this description by an exhaustive study of the Winter Solstice ceremonies of all the families of the East Mesa, but was prevented from so doing by the breaking out of an epidemic. This study was begun with fair results, and before withdrawing from the kivas he was able to make a few observations on certain altars at Hano which had escaped him in the preceding year.

      Walpi, commonly called by the natives Hopiki, Hopi pueblo, began its history as a settlement of Snake clans which had united with the Bear phratry. From time to time this settlement grew in size by the addition of the Ala, Pakab, Patki, and other phratries of lesser importance. Among important increments in modern times may be mentioned several clans of Tanoan ancestry, as the Asa, Honani, and the like. These have all been assimilated, having lost their identity as distinct peoples and become an integral part of the population of Walpi, or of its colony, Sitcomovi.[3] Among the most recent arrivals in Tusayan was another group of Tanoan clans which will be considered in this article. The last mentioned are now domiciled in a pueblo of their own called Hano; they have not yet, as the others, lost their language nor been merged into the Hopi people, but still preserve intact many of their ancient customs.

      The present relations of Hano to Walpi are in some respects not unlike those which have existed in the past between incoming clans and Walpi as each new colony entered the Tusayan territory. Thus, after the Patki people settled at the pueblo called Pakatcomo,[4] within sight of Old Walpi, they lived there for some time, observing their own rites and possibly speaking a different language much as the people of Hano do today. In the course of time, however, the population of the Patki pueblo was united with the preëpre Walpi families, Pakatcomo was abandoned, and its speech and ritual merged into those of Walpi. Could we have studied the Patki people when they lived at their former homes, Pakatcomo or Homolobi, we would be able to arrive at more exact ideas of their peculiar rites and altars than is now possible. Hano has never been absorbed by Walpi as the Patki pueblos were, and the altars herein described still preserve their true Tanoan characteristics. These altars are interesting because made in a Tanoan pueblo by Tewa clans which are

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