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Various Sizes - Matted Prints
Situated in what is now northeastern Arizona, on the edge of the Painted Desert, the Hopi are widely considered to be the “oldest of the native people” within north America.
This painting shows a Hopi maiden wearing the distinctive hairstyle called squash blossom or butterfly whorls. 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."
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Various Sizes - Matted Prints
Situated in what is now northeastern Arizona, on the edge of the Painted Desert, the Hopi are widely considered to be the “oldest of the native people” within north America.
This painting shows a Hopi maiden wearing the distinctive hairstyle called squash blossom or butterfly whorls. 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."
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