They had taught the sacred dances to a group of young men, however, and these became the first Hopi priests. They act out life as it should not be. They turn everything upside down, even such grave matters as the treatment of the dead. The clowns behave scandalously and so they make us think about morality. This analysis of the Kachina will connect with the earlier discussion of the trickster in mythology.
Pottery is a form of Native American art that exemplifies the personal level of tribal life.
The objects of Indians are expressive and not decorative because they are alive, living in our experience of them. When the Indian potter collects clay, she asks the consent of the river-bed and sings its praises for having made something as beautiful as clay. When she fires her pottery she offers songs to the fire so it will not discolour or burst her wares. Music and dance of Native Americans are examples of all four levels from mythic and ceremonial to social and personal. And at the spiritual center of their great affirmation was the dance, the moving means of interweaving life, culture, land.