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Title: Powamuya (bean dance song)
Identifier(s): audio:24054; APSdigrec_5391; 03; 16
Description: "This dance is held in the kiva during the month of February when the bean plants appear as sprouts."; This recording has been designated as potentially culturally sensitive, pending further review. Reproduction and online access is restricted. Please consult the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1965-07

Title: Explanation of the origin and composition of Wuwuchim in Hopi
Identifier(s): audio:11304; APSdigrec_5344; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 14
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1965-08

Title: The Origin and Ceremonies of Oraibi
Identifier(s): audio:21485; APSdigrec_5665; Recording Number: Diehl Hopi Tape 1; Program Number: 01
Description: Introduced in English. Narrative given in Hopi.; Identified as "dubbed by Biggs at Flagstaff for HCD[iehl]." This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: Diehl, H. C. Hopi and Navajo Recordings, 1954-1959. (Mss.Rec.103); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.103-ead.xml
Subject: Hopi Indians--History; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1956-08

Title: Anosqatawi (water-throwing song)
Identifier(s): audio:11917; APSdigrec_5394; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 19
Description: "This song is part of a symbolic plea for rain. During times of drought young boys, accompanied by their grandfathers would walk through the villages so that water might be sprinkled on them. The song is sung by the grandfather and is a plea for rain to fall."
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1965-07

Title: Wuwuchim tawi: Commentary in English
Identifier(s): audio:11297; APSdigrec_5343; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 13
Description: General name for older songs of prediction.
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1965-08

Title: Heveyveta' tawi: Translation and commentary
Identifier(s): audio:11276; APSdigrec_5338; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 08
Description: Water-sprinkling song. A game song performed by boys and girls.
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1965-08

Title: Palhiktawi (song of the "singer society")
Identifier(s): audio:11911; APSdigrec_5393; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 18
Description: "The dance associated with this song is performed by initiated women of the mamzaw society. This society maintains close ties with the men's singer society (the tatawkya) and must grant permission in order for the women to perform this dance. There is much teasing on the part of the men in the process of granting permission, but at one point in the dance the men and women of the two societies dance together."
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1965-07

Title: Discussion of Basket dance
Identifier(s): audio:12040; APSdigrec_5412; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 18
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1965-07

Title: Wuwuchim tawi: Commentary in Hopi
Identifier(s): audio:11293; APSdigrec_5342; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 12
Description: General name for older songs of prediction.
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1965-08

Title: Tsukutawi, owe'tawi
Identifier(s): audio:11265; APSdigrec_5335; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 05
Description: Clown dance.
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1965-08

Title: Wuwuchim tawi
Identifier(s): audio:11289; APSdigrec_5341; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 11
Description: General name for older songs of prediction.
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1965-08

Title: Tsuku tawi (monologue)
Identifier(s): audio:11726; APSdigrec_5359; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 06
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Hopi Indians--Religion
Date: 1965-08

Title: Powamuya (bean dance song)
Identifier(s): audio:11905; APSdigrec_5391; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 16
Description: "This dance is held in the kiva during the month of February when the bean plants appear as sprouts."
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1965-07

Title: Mosayurtawi (buffalo dance song)
Identifier(s): audio:12010; APSdigrec_5407; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 13
Description: "This is a social dance song performed in January before the Bean Ceremony (powamuya). "Translation of buffalo dance song: 'through the watermelon patch comes rain / they make melons grow / comes rain through the corn / let the water sine after it falls' (this is said to the clouds)"
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1965-07

Title: Explanation of the origin and composition of Wuwuchim in English
Identifier(s): audio:11308; APSdigrec_5345; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 15
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Hopi Indians--Religion
Date: 1965-08

Title: Conversation on Kachinas and Hopi religion
Identifier(s): audio:21014; APSdigrec_6515; Recording Number: 725; Program Number: 01
Description: Contents of tape were not marked or summarized in original documetnation. Speaker unidentified.; Corresponds to original MNA tape 48.
Source: Whiting, Alfred F. Hopi and Tewa Recordings, 1964-1965, 1969. (Mss.Rec.104); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.104-ead.xml
Subject: Hopi language; Hopi Indians--Religion; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Kachinas
Date: 1969

Title: Uytawi (planting and harvesting song)
Identifier(s): audio:11902; APSdigrec_5390; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 15
Description: "This is sung when the corn begins to emerge and the tips begin to protrude from the ground. The customary practice involves the ceremonial shaking of the tips to encourage growth. This song is sung at that time. "In Oraibi the women are supposed to sing this to help the growth of the bean plants. Beans are planted around mid May. This first planting is designated as humimongwi. Traditionally the Chief plants his crops first; thereafter, all others can plant."
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Religion; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1965-07

Title: Hehey'a kachin tawi
Identifier(s): audio:11312; APSdigrec_5346; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 16
Description: A kachina song named for one of the older masked figures.
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Religion; Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Kachinas
Date: 1965-08

Title: Tsuku tawi
Identifier(s): audio:11714; APSdigrec_5358; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 05
Description: "Clown song. This is sung when the clowns appear in the village plaza, when a kachina dance is in progress."
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Religion; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1965-08

Title: Nieman kachin tawi
Identifier(s): audio:11280; APSdigrec_5339; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 09
Description: Home dance song for the final kachina dance of the summer.
Source: Black, Robert A. Hopi Indian Songs, 1965. (Mss.Rec.56); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.56-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Hopi Indians--Music; Hopi Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Kachinas; Hopi Indians--Religion
Date: 1965-08