If a young woman stops grinding to speak with her visitor, her mother steps into the grinding room in order to see to whom her daughter is speaking. If the mother approves of the young man, he may be invited in for a visit, if not, he is sent away. Young Hopi men often hoped to win the hearts of young ladies based on their performances in races and trained accordingly. The film, because of time and budget constraints, did not go into detail about all the colors. In Hopi songs, poetic references are made to the directions in terms of the colors, or in terms of objects or plants or animals of a certain color.
Clowns seem to be a distraction from the sacredness of a katsina dance.
In fact, all the Pueblos had katsinam at one time. The Hopi calendar is complicated in that it incorporates aspects of the lunar calendar and the solar calendar. Because the Hopi have had the benefit of living where they do for many years, they have experience regarding the best times to plant, harvest, etc.