. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. for the last twenty years exerteda liberalizing influence on Hopi relations with the United States,and that ever-growing influence has greatly reduced the conservatismof Walpi and Sichumovi. Such an influence has not existed to thesame extent at Oraibi and among the Middle Mesa villages. Oneneeds but visit thi> three clusters of Hopi puet)los and note their pres-ent condition to see that the inhaljitants of those on the East mesaare far ahead of the others in the adoption of new secuhir cust
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. for the last twenty years exerteda liberalizing influence on Hopi relations with the United States,and that ever-growing influence has greatly reduced the conservatismof Walpi and Sichumovi. Such an influence has not existed to thesame extent at Oraibi and among the Middle Mesa villages. Oneneeds but visit thi> three clusters of Hopi puet)los and note their pres-ent condition to see that the inhaljitants of those on the East mesaare far ahead of the others in the adoption of new secuhir customs,and this influence can be seen in their ritual, leading to the belief thatthe oldest variants of ceremonies persist at Oraibi and the Middlemesa. 1 In 1890 there were only two houses in the foothills under the East mesa and these v/ere inhab-ited by Tewa families. There was not a single house at the base of the Middle mesa and the present writing the foothills and plains are dotted with new houses of the white mans type. BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. LVl. ^*^^\-v
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