PREFACE. 



Through the renewed generosity of Mr. Stanley McCormick, the 

 Field Museum of Natural History resumes investigations among the 

 Hopi Indians of Arizona. The services of Mr. H. R. Voth, who has 

 made that tribe the object of special studies, have again been secured 

 to construct additional Hopi altars and prepare further papers on Hopi 

 ceremonies and customs, and to add new ethnic features to the Hopi 

 collections. 



This monograph on the Oraibi Marau Ceremony describes the 

 second of several extended ceremonies of the women of Oraibi, the first 

 one, "The Oraibi Oaqol Ceremony," having been published in iqoi 

 in the series of papers on the Hopi under the Stanley McCormick 

 expedition. 



The profound thanks of the Museum and this Department to 

 Mr. Stanley McCormick for his continued generosity are herewith 

 cheerfully acknowledged. George A. Dorsey, 



Curator, Dept. of Anthropology. 

 Chicago, January 191 2. 



