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Peaceful One is a contemplative painting that captures a Hopi maiden in a quiet moment. Soft layers of warm ochre, muted sienna, and cool sage glide across the canvas, suggesting sunlit mesas and ancient petroglyphs.
This Hopi maiden wears the distinctive hairstyle called squash blossom or butterfly whorls. To make this hairdo, a young woman's mother would wind her hair around a curved piece of wood to give it a round shape. Then she would tie it off in the middle and remove the wood frame. Only unmarried young women wore this complex tribal hairstyle.
She also wears turquoise mosaic earrings, necklaces of shell beads, coral, and turquoise as well as Navajo silver, and a traditional black manta. All of which are highly valued and significant to the Hopi.
The word Hopi itself is a short version of their name Hopituh Shi-nu-mu meaning "The Peaceful People" or "Peaceful Little Ones.” The Hopi Dictionary gives the primary meaning of the word "Hopi" as: "behaving one, one who is mannered, civilized, peaceable, polite, who adheres to the Hopi way."
Hopi is a concept deeply rooted in the culture's religion, spirituality, and its view of morality and ethics.
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Peaceful One is a contemplative painting that captures a Hopi maiden in a quiet moment. Soft layers of warm ochre, muted sienna, and cool sage glide across the canvas, suggesting sunlit mesas and ancient petroglyphs.
This Hopi maiden wears the distinctive hairstyle called squash blossom or butterfly whorls. To make this hairdo, a young woman's mother would wind her hair around a curved piece of wood to give it a round shape. Then she would tie it off in the middle and remove the wood frame. Only unmarried young women wore this complex tribal hairstyle.
She also wears turquoise mosaic earrings, necklaces of shell beads, coral, and turquoise as well as Navajo silver, and a traditional black manta. All of which are highly valued and significant to the Hopi.
The word Hopi itself is a short version of their name Hopituh Shi-nu-mu meaning "The Peaceful People" or "Peaceful Little Ones.” The Hopi Dictionary gives the primary meaning of the word "Hopi" as: "behaving one, one who is mannered, civilized, peaceable, polite, who adheres to the Hopi way."
Hopi is a concept deeply rooted in the culture's religion, spirituality, and its view of morality and ethics.