Word: hopi
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Adventure (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS). Hour documentary on the Hopi Indians, comment by Oliver La Farge...
American Indians are on the warpath against cheap Japanese imitations of tribal handicrafts. From the Southwest, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the National Park Service have received complaints about Japanese versions of Navaho beadwork, Zuni jewelry, Hopi kachina dolls (painted wooden dolls representing Indian deities). From the Northwest have come reports of made-in-Japan totem poles and ivory carvings. The Japanese imitations sell for as little as one-fifth Indian prices. Up until last year, the Park Service had a regulation against sales of foreign-made handicrafts by concessionaires in national parks, but the ban was lifted...
Before the Navahos came, Pueblo forebears of the Hopi and Zuni Indians lived in the canyon. They turned its widest caves into apartment houses big enough for hundreds of families each, and decorated the walls with mysterious figures such as the rabbits at left. Still farther back in the darkness of the canyon's Stone Age lived the so-called Basket Makers, who had no pottery and no bows & arrows. Like Europe's earliest painters, they pictured their own hands flat against the rock, as if to say simply: "We were here...
Future TV journeys of Adventure: to Brazil's Mato Grosso, to the Hopi Indians...
...Commissioner of Indian Affairs: Glenn L. Emmons, 57, a Gallup, N.Mex. banker and longtime friend and popular partisan of the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Ute. Apache and Pueblo tribes in his neighborhood. As commissioner, said Emmons, he will aim to "liquidate the trusteeship of the Indians as quickly as possible," and make them self-supporting citizens...