This had been recommended by Joseph Day (he and his Hope wife run a shop on Second Mesa, discussed here).
Hopi are famously reluctant about allowing photos etc. This book-project was unusual - undertaken in late 1970s (with initial publication date in 1982) - they explain that the tribe was amenable in part because a book about the Navajo had been well-received a few years earlier. So I think it was a bit of a PR project.
But nothing similar has since been permitted, so this one is particularly worthwhile.
Interesting discussions of internal politics within Hopi as this existed at that time (no doubt somewhat similar now). Great photography. The dances (social and religious). Hadn't realized the importance of eaglets. Discussion of spirituality, or spirit world. How the San Francisco Peaks and other key areas fit into the origin narrative and current locations. Transition in white man world. Interactions with Navajo, ongoing border issues.
Incredible continuity over so many centuries.
It's all rather amazing - and centered just a few miles N/NE of here.
