TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1937
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Snake Dance of Hopi Indians Shows More Than Barbarism Says Man Initiated Into Rites
While the Sukke Dance of the Hopi Indians may seem to utterly barbaric to the ordinary civilized observer, the person who understands these Indians and their life cannot fail to appreciate their native dance as the opinion of Dr. C. H. Marvin, president of the University of Arizona, who recently visited Lawrence. The life of the Hopi is more an open book to him than to most white men, even those in the centers in the Southwest.
Speaking of the source of his information concerning the ways of the Arizona Indians, Doctor Marvin sait that a woman in a few white men ever initiated into the secret rites of the Hopi Snake Dance, but a tribeswoman which I would have never heard.
The word "Hopi," according to Doctor Marvin, means something equivalent to "people friendly one with another," and the plundering Navajos, another desert tribe, regard the Hopi for being a great friend in their fair dealings with one another.
The Hops are is desert people, and grow their corn of corn, beans, and other vegetables in the bottoms of the little canyons and arroyos which cut between the means or ardes of table land where the Indian villages are built. Planted in the arroyo bottoms, the crops receive the advantage of any freshest which flows down the canyon, and every bit of water used for irrigation belongs to the religion of the Honi is to some extent centered around the subject of water supply, and the Snake Dance is a prayer for rain.
The dance is scheduled for about the same time each year, that time being the most humid season. The visible outside dance takes but about 20 minutes, but preparations go on for from 17 to 20 days beforehand. The priests observe, at this time, the boulder on the distant mountains, and when the reflected light is of a certain quality, it shows an atmospheric condition which is certain to bring rain soon. The exact date for the ceremony is kept secret by the priests until this atmospheric condition obtains; therefore the Snake Dance never fails to bring the rain which is expected to occur during the舞, and never later than 24 hours following.
The gods of the Hopis are four in number and are represented by
Several Complete Course
There were a number of education courses offered through extension classes this year, according to Guy V. Keeler, secretary of the extension class bureau, and the records on these three classes indicate the interest shown by teachers. The great advantage of teachers who take advantage of extension teaching is probably responsible for this preference for classes in education.
Many Teachers Take Advantage of Extension Work
the records of three extension classes in education which were conducted by Prof. Carl B. Alhaus, of the School of Education, during the first semester indicate an unusually large number of completions. Only five of them were rolled and rollmills failed to finish the courses in which they were enrolled.
Financing Arrangement to Reduce Public Debt
Washington, March 8.—The national public debt will be reduced about $210,000,000 through a financing arrangement set for March 16, according to an announcement by treasury officials Monday.
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Classes were offered for a total of seven hours of credit, and were as follows: Herington, "Statistical Methods and Measurements," Marion, "Applied Educational Sociology," Kansas City, Missouri
Two new series of federal certificates will be issued for $300,000.00 of 3% per cent, maturing in one year or less; 2% per cent, maturing in six months.
The proceeds are to go to retiring $600,000,00 in notes falling due March 16. The balance to retire this issue is to come from the surplus automatically reducing its public debts by that amount.
wooden idols kept in a small stone god-house. There is the god which creates life, the god which gives form to life, a god called the Thinker, and a messenger god. Every year the messenger god is with us all around the earth where the souls of all good Hopes live in eternal bliss. From them he gets progressive ideas to bring back to the people of earth. On his return, he stages a race with the Thinker, who is a conservative gift of custom, and also a wise counselor of ideas prevail, but if the Thinker wins, the old customs are retained.
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Those Indians who have not made as success of life are supposed to enter the bodies of snakes at death, and await recurrection for another trial at life. This the reason that they will kill it is the treat it is given ther than with veneration.
Of 3500 students in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Iowa, only two made "A*" in all their courses. We worked with their way through school.
The main preliminary ceremonies to the great event of the Snake Dance take place in the Kiven, an underwater temple located along the valley ladder through a hole in the roof. It was here that Doctor Marvin was nifted into the secrets of the triennial rites, and gave the simple but impressive oath, "You are now one with us."
Four days preceding the dance are reserved for the snake hunt. An expedition goes north on the first day and collects as any snakes as possible, and on subsequent days, parties go to the other points of the compass. Diamond back matricks are the favorite snake, and are among the most deadly. The snake is raised up onto a platform. Dance, the Indian dancers work themselves up into an ectacry, and holding the snakes in their teeth, dance through all manner of steps and grations. Often the snakes strike, but the superb physical condition of the Indians, the coating of red mud with which their bodies are covered, and the fact that the snakes have been tensed to strike at eagle fighteens until their venom is drained almost completely the effect of snake bites on the dancers.
The snakes, being the souls of departed Hopis and the mediators between the peoples of earth and the blessed souls in the bowels of the earth, are admonished to carry the tides given them during the ceremony of the dance back to the souls of the people. In this, the ritual of the dance is a constant prayer for rain, which without fail is answered.
Nine Wives of Students Initiated by Dames Club
The following wives of University students were initiated by the K. U. Dames at Henley House last Tuesday; Mrs. Caleb Sumerville, Mrs. Coke Graves, Mrs. M. L. Dye, Mrs. J. S. White, Mrs. Porse Clark, Mrs. Howard Bishop, Mrs. C, R. Yates, and Mrs. L. E. Jones.
A short social meeting followed the initiation. The hostesses for the next meeting of the K. U. Dames with Mrs. Lilie Douglas and M. M. I. Dye.
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Downtown Bristol March 8—Pons-Waressom comet, which approaches north to the earth every six years, has again returned, and the first of the astronomers throughout the world watching to pick it up was Dr. George V. Blainbrock, of the Yerkes Observatory here. Donna B. Eggleston, who is not currently on the morning of March 21 in the constellation of Boetes, this is visible in the morning sky, and is directly south at about 3:00 a.m. It may be identified by the bright star Arcturus, which is a short distance above the place where the comet was discovered. However, when the comet was discovered it was very distant, its magnitude, which made it difficult to see even with powerful instruments. It was very close to the position which had been calculated for it in advance by English astronomers, and this facilitated its location. Its exact position was 14 hours 12 minutes 20.4 seconds in right ascension and 25 degrees in declination. These correspond to attitude and longitude on the earth.
Though the cone is moving closer to the earth and will be a little more than four million miles away in a few months, it will probably not become apparent until it comes into sight, as it has not attained such brightness on past visits. Its distance is, however, relatively close, and so it will be kept under the constant scrutiny of astronomers, for a little later, it will be visible with much more detail than it can be seen from its telescope at the Yerkes Observatory. One study that will be made will be to determine its composition; for its tail, which has not yet become apparent, is known to contain carbon and oxygen, and the automobiles that can cause death when people are confined in a garage with the engine running.
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