HOPI [Photo Chronicle] [SOLD]

HOPI [Photo Chronicle]

by Suzanne and Jake Page

Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York

Hardback with slip cover, first edition 1981, second printing 1986.

169 illustrations, including 137 plates in full color and 32 line drawings, 235 pages

Note:  this book is Autographed to Al Anthony by the authors

Contents

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Traditional vs. Progressive—Picture Essay in the Plaza

The Ceremonial Year—Picture Essay: Corn

Tasks and Rituals—Picture Essay: Village Life

Pasts—Picture Essay: Passages

Among the Spirits—Picture Essay: Messengers

The Land—Picture Essay: The Sacred Boundary

“The Hopi Indians, who live in the arid highlands of northern Arizona, have inhabited the same place for a millennium, far longer than any other people in North America.  They are not only the oldest dwellers in this land but are considered by most other Indians to have a wisdom, a knowledge of things, beyond average comprehension.  Peace-loving and knit tightly together by clan relationships, they are intensely spiritual and fiercely independent.  Their religion, deep and all pervading, is a many-stranded cord that unites them to their stark, beautiful environment.

“Hopi life today is stunningly revealed in Suzanne and Jake Page’s intimate portrait through vivid photographs and a highly detailed text.  Here are faces of the young and the old, the innocent and the wise; moments of joy, humor, and sadness.  Here are the rigors and satisfactions of daily activity—planting and harvesting corn, making piki bread, building a new kiva, carving a kachina doll—as well as some of the rituals that attend daily life; a baby-naming ceremony and a wedding. . . “

Condition: very good condition