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This picture of my mother as a child was taken at the time of a visit to her home in Henryetta by Juanita, a young Hopi woman, who was studying at Bacone College in Muskogee, nearby. Note the hair style. Juanita had placed her hair into a traditional Hopi maiden whorl hair style. She is also holding a Hopi pot, no doubt a gift from Juanita. By the way, the hair was a bright red-orange; her nickname, with some, was Carrot-top!

This photograph is badly faded (it is over 70 years old, circa 1920), but the house is the one I grew up in. The house in the background has been replaced, but the big yard on the west side of the house (between the two houses seen here) was where I played baseball with the rest of the neighborhood kids, all boys, throughout my elementary school years.


Two photographs from early in this century of Hopi girls with their hair in this style are available from the Special Collections and Archives Department at Cline Library, Northern Arizona University are available.
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