Types of Homes
Types of Food
Southwest
Tools
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Resources
- Hopi's made Kachina dolls out of wood which symbolizes spirits.
-They beileved that the Kachina would help their
crops grow by bringing
rain.
-The Hopis language
is Uto-Aztecan.
Hopis often ate corn. Although they also ate peaches, melons, apricots, squash, beans, chilli peppers, and pumpkins. They hunted rabbit and deer. they liked to make stew with their rabbit meat.
Interesting
Facts
Southwest
Geographic
Features
Southwest is a hot dry desert with winding mountains. There are flat-topped mesas and steep walled canoyons. It contains two flowing rivers.
They made a wide variety of pottery, from bowls to wedding vases. They also use pots to cook stew. They made jewelry out of turquoise and silver to sell and trade. They made baskets out of desert fibres to use in ceremonial purposes.
The Hopis women wore a cotton robewith a belt which was embroidered. The men wore a sleeve or sleevless shirt like a poncho They wore leggings. That were cut off right above the knees. They used deer skin to make moccasins.
Crafts & Clothing
The Hopis made two types of homes, Reed homes and Pueblo homes. Reed homes are made from a wooden pole frame covered in reed mats.
Pueblo homes are often multi-storied. It was made out of sun-baked mud and straw bricks cemeted wih adobe. it was also made by using large stones bonded with adobe
The Hopi's used tools to hunt and to farm. The types of tools that they used to hunt with were bows and arrows. They also used spears to defend their territory against the Spanish and Navajos.
Since corn was their main food source they had multiple types of tools to prepare it like a corn grinder and corn scraper. They also used farming tools.
Hopis had tools to make their clothes.They used spindles and looms to weave their cotton.
The Hopis and the Hawaiians had differences and similarities. The geography in the Southwest region and Ancient Hawaii were very different,its a dry-desert in the Southwest and in Hawaii its a tropical climate with lots of forests.
They also believed in different gods. The Hopis believed in the Kachina Dolls which they believed was a supernatural form of anything from rain to stars, animals or even plants., they could also be dead ancestors. Hawaiians believed in spiritual gods such as Ku (god of war) and Pele (godess of volcanoes).
But they both had missionarys come to them and teach them about Christianity.
Kula
Hawaii
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