MS 7488 Hopi narratives
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 7488
label: Local Note
content: Reel-to-reel tape recordings
name: label: Creator
content: Johnson, K. T., 1876-1971 (Hopi)
label: Names
content: Yukiwa, Hopi
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Navaho
creator: label: Creator
content: Johnson, K. T., 1876-1971 (Hopi)
culture: label: Culture
content: Hopi
label: Culture
content: Hopi Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Diné (Navajo)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Kay Tuwalstewa Johnson was a One Horn Society leader at Old Oraibi. Formerly an adherent to Hopi religion, an injury and his delay in recovery caused him to identify the Hopi deity Massa as the devil and brought his conversion to Christianity. The tapes were made in the late 1960s or early 1970s with his son, Fricso H. Johnson running the recorder.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Reels (4 inch)
label: Extent
content: 3 Reels (3 inch)
unitdate: label: Date
content: n.d
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The tapes were deposited by Philip C. Johnson in 1979. Johnson obtained the materials from his father, Frisco H. Johnson, who had himself encoueaged his own father, K.T. Johnson, to make the recordings. Philip Johnson has allowed the archives to make copies of the tapes but, in accordance with his grandfather's wishes, has imposed the restriction that no profit be made off of them. Dr. David Shaul has listened to the tapes and states that K.T. Johnson was careful to omit any tribal secrets that he knew.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS7488
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Reels
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Included are accounts of experiences in a government school at Keams Canyon; a version of the emergence myth; conversations with Yukiwma about Kokop Clan traditions; narrative about a Mexican slave raid on Oraibi; discussions of weaving and health practices, personal and tribal history, interrelationship among Hopi clans; contrasts of Hopi and Navaho life; discussion of the Hopi as a chosen people; exposition of Christian themes. A five-page summary of the tapes has been provided by David Shaul.