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MR. H. R. VOTH is known to all students of North American ethnology for his researches into the sociology and religion of various Pueblo groups, and now, owing to the resources of the Stanley McCormick benefaction, they are indebted to him for further studies on the Hopi of Arizona. The description of the Oraibi winter and summer Marau cere monies is the result of several partial observations in different years; as the ceremonies are sometimes going on day and night, it is a physical impossibility for one man to make an exhaustive study of a nine-day (and night ceremony, at one time, but a protracted study of the same ceremony, on different occasions, has several compensations, and it is evident that Mr. Voth has done all that was possible to render his account accurate and as complete as circumstances would permit.
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Field Museum of Natural History. Anthropological series, vol. xi., No. 1, Publication No. 156. “The Oraibi Mnrau Ceremony.” By H. R. Voth . Pp. 88 + plates. Vol. xi. No. 2, Publication 157. “Brief Miscellaneous Hopi Papers.” By H. R. Voth . Pp. v + 99–149. (Chicago, 1912).
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HADDON, A. Notes on the Ceremonies the of Hopi 1 . Nature 90, 630–631 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/090630a0
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