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Dans « The Hopi Tutuveni », journal de la tribu Hopi , July 1, 2014, première page
« Even in the United States there is no U.S. law against sacred Native American art and artifacts being collected or sold by private owners. »
Dan Talayesva écrit, relatant la mort de son oncle, le chef Tawaquaptewa lui remis les masques de son oncle
«On a partagé ce qui restait de la propriété de mon oncle...moi j’ai reçu trois très anciens masques sacrés...»
Soleil Hopi, ed Terre des Hommes, pg 397
«Also, whereas the man owns the masks and ceremonial equipment, under Hopi common law these figurines ( les poupées kachinas) belong to the woman....»
Frederick Dockstader, The Kachina and the White Man,
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque (1954) rédition 1993, page 97
« in the case of the regular Kuitu masks, these are personnal property...He may own several , if he is quite active in the Kachina rites, but the masks are inherited
by his son, brother or nephew. These masks may be repainted to represent various Kachina beings, as desired. When they become to badly wornout to
allow further use, any usefull parts ( ears, snout etc) are salvaged the rest is discarted.....»
Frederick Dockstader, The Kachina and the White Man, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque (1954) rédition 1993, page 33
«There are two kinds of kachinas which are quite distinct. Most of them are chosen according to the desires of the people, the masks are painted and redecorated
for each appereance. However, there is another type called Chief Kachinas, whose masks are permanent and are carefully kept in the back room of the houses.
The right to have these masks and to wear them is heredetary....»
Edwin Earle pg 6 in 1938, Hopi Katchinas, New York, JJ Augustin
« Each year after Ca’lako everyone takes his masks out to Red Earth. Each man takes his own masks, and if a man has more than one he takes them all.....
There may be a thousand masks there, or several thousand, perhaps...»
Bunzel pg 855 in 1932, Zuni Katcinas, Bureau of American Ethnology, Report 47
« A man will have a mask made as soon as he is able to afford the expense involved» et pg 849 « If a man is poor he can not have a mask»
Bunzel pg 848 in 1932, Zuni Katcinas, Bureau of American Ethnology, Report 47
«....the mariage tie is britttle....
To divorce him, she has but to pile his belongings outside the ladder; his box of valuable feathers and willow sticks cut for prayer sticks, his mask, rattle,
danse kilt, and mocassins»
Pearson Elsie Clews « Pueblo indian religion» T 1, pg 42 , siting Benedict
«Kachina danse masks...are personal property and are inherited by brother, nephew or son, are kept at home or in a kiva....»
