children; also new dolls and brightly painted bows and arrows are given
them. The closing act of the drama is a grand procession carrying sacred
offerings to a shrine outside the village.

This is the dance at which the brides of the year make their first
public appearance; their snowy wedding blankets add a lovely touch to
the colorful scene.


=Religion Not For Morality=

The Hopi is religious, and he is moral, but there is no logical
connection between the two.

Mrs. Coolidge says:[18] "In all that has been said concerning the gods
and the Kachinas, the spiritual unity of all animate life, the
personification of nature and the correct conduct for attaining favor
with the gods, no reference has been made to morality as their object.
The purpose of religion in the mind of the Indian is to gain the
favorable, or to ward off evil, influences which the super-spirits are
capable of bringing to the tribe or the individual. Goodness,
unselfishness, truth-telling, respect for property, family, and filial
duty, are cumulative by-products of communal living, closely connected
with religious beliefs and conduct, but not their object. The Indian,
like other people, has found by experience that honesty is the best
policy among friends and neighbors, but not necessarily so among
enemies; that village life is only tolerable on terms of mutual safety
of property and person; that industry and devotion to the family
interest make for prosperity and happiness. Moral principles are with
him the incidental product of his ancestral experience, not primarily