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also of minor religious conceptions. I have found th 

 - to run through many of their customs and beliefs. 1 

 In a comparative study of the directional colors of th 

 with those of other tribes we must remember that vell< 

 responds not to north or west, speaking of the true <li 

 but to northwest. The following colors corresj .on. 1 to t 

 cardinal points, [calling to mind that the Hopi north i.« 

 northwest,] north, yellow ; west, blue [represented .emu 

 by malachite green*]; south, red; east, white The \\ 

 translate their word kwi-ni-wi-ke for the first direction. 

 is because they say their north is the same a< the An: 

 but differs from it in direction. At Ha-no the colors! 

 same except that yellow north, and blue we<t are 

 changed; with them north is blue and we-t is vel 

 among eastern Tewans according to Bandelier Ii 

 follows I confine my remarks to the conception of cole 

 directions used by the Ilopi of Ilual-pi. 



Whenever these. four colors are used symbolically tl 

 used in the same order : yellow, blue, red and while 

 ever offerings are made to the four cardinal point- tl 

 made in the corresponding circuit north w ><t < il 

 Let me cite a few examples of each which' mav ilh 

 possibly establish, my position. 



tion of so-called medicine. When a priest pours the 



of which it is made into the terraced rectam-'uhu' b<>\\ 

 paratory to placing the other ingredients [nit he poi 

 fluid first on the north side, then on the west, then 



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character of the mod ifican 



what Hopi mythological personage the T 



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