Word: hopi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Entertainers Harry Belafonte, Arlo Guthrie and Buffy Sainte-Marie to raise money for the impoverished U.S. Indians. Although some 300 guests paid up to $125 a ticket, the host could not even light a peace pipe right. Wearing a navy velvet jacket and turquoise beads given him by a Hopi chief, Brando arrived flanked by three magnificently attired Indians after announcing: "There's something obscene about dressing up and inviting a lot of rich people to raise money for the Indians." Paparazzo Ron Galella, who was felled last year by Brando in a street scuffle, had got dressed...
...reassure themselves that there is only one world and that the "validity" of a culture's interpretations can and should be measured only against this norm. Any myth, they would say, can conveniently be seen as an embryonic form of what the West accepts as linear history; a Hopi rain dance is merely
...illusion of being five separate circular necklaces heaped one atop the other, go perfectly with the elegantly simple lines of contemporary high-fashion clothing. So do the intricately crafted silver and turquoise belts and vertebrae-like necklaces hammered out by Indian metalworkers of the Navajo, Zuñi and Hopi tribes. The similarity between the old and new is at times so striking-as with Edival Ramosa's curlicue aluminum and silver necklace-that some of the New Jewelry, says Lyon, "would have been more acceptable in Etruscan times...
...NAVAHO INDIANS use the same word for both grey and brown. The Hopi in their thoughts about events include both space and time; neither is found alone in their world view. Douglas Huebler combines a concept of art with out culture's thoughts about events; neither is found alone in his aesthetic view...
...Huebler's movements ridiculous, for an Indian's purpose might be to kill the bird and he would move quietly so as not to scare the bird. Huebler's series of park pictures implies that the bird has been scared--a situation the Indian would find unlikely. For a Hopi Indian, who neither separates the event in time or space, there is neither the bird alone nor the call separated from the event. He would use one word for the whole performance--"bird call," and one picture, a bird in the hand...