Aspects of Sun Worship Among the Moki Indians¹.

Abstract

THERE probably survives no tribe of Indians in the United States which has preserved its aboriginal worship in a purer form than the so-called Mokis, a group of agricultural people of north-eastern Arizona. These Indians live in seven villages or pueblos, situated on inaccessible mesas, and number a few less than 2000 souls. They inhabit the same territory, and in the case of the denizens of their largest pueblo, Oraibi, live on the same site that their ancestors did when visited by the early Spanish explorers, in the middle of the sixteenth century.