WATERS, FRANK - Book of the Hopi, the

Penguin Books, 1977. Paperback. ISBN: 0140045279. Illustrated by Oswald White Bear Fredericks. Trade Paperback in Fine condition, tightly bound and unmarked with light tanning to the interior pages. "In this strange and wonderful book, thirty elders of the ancient Hopi tribe of Northern Arizona--a people who regard themselves as the first inhabitants of America--freely reveal the Hopi worldview for the first time in written form. The Hopi kept this view a secret for countless centuries, and anthropologists have long struggled to understand it. Now they record their myths and legends, and the meaning of their religious rituals and ceremonies, as a gift to future generations." ; B&W Illustrations, B&W Photographs; 7.70 X 5 X 0.90 inches; 345 pages. As New .