IDNO

P.9036.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Flute Dance Bower, Walpi. Hopi.” [typed text]

Place

N America; United States of America; Arizona

Cultural Affliation

Hopi; Southwest Indian; Native North American

Named Person

Photographer

Lowie, Robert H.

Collector / Expedition

Date

1916

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Lowie, Robert H.

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Context: The Hopi Flute Dance - The Flute Dance is a social dance and consists of 4 people and one Group "The Flute Society" the 4 people are the Flute Boy, the Flute Maidens, the Flute Priests, and Kaletaka, the warrior. This ceremony is conducted in August and lasts for 9 days, beginning in the Main Village. The Flute Boy and Flute Maiden start off followed by the Flute Priests. The Flute Society then enters the plaza walking on sacred cornmeal, the cornmeal represents rain clouds. The Flute Society is lead by the warrior Kaletaka. [Source: Floresta; Aborigeni della terra, http://digidownload.libero.it/maloca/index.html, JD 26/3/2007]

Bibliographical Reference: Lowie, Robert H., 1929. Hopi Kinship (Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. 30, pt. 7)

Biographical Information: Robert H. Lowie worked with the Hopi of First Mesa (Walpi and Sichumovi) and two towns of Second Mesa (Mishongnovi and Shipaulovi). See Biographies File for further information. [Source: Notes on Hopi Clans, Review author[s]: Elsie Clews Parsons, American Anthropologist © 1931 American Anthropological Association, JD 24/3/2007]

Source: A letter from Robert Lowie, dated 24th April 1935, to Louis Clarke enclosing four of his Hopi photographs for the celebration in honour of Alfred Haddon is amongst the Haddon Photo Papers, W06/1/14. [JD 1/5/2016]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 16/4/2007]