Wichita Falls High School - Coyote Yearbook (Wichita Falls, TX)

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THE NATIVE AMERICANS HAVE LONG BEEN SKILLED CRAFTSMEN. ALMOST EVERY INDIAN MAN AND WOMAN EXCELLS IN SOME CRAFT. THE ZUNI MEN AND WOMEN ARE ARTISTS IN THE DESIGNING AND MAK- ING OF EXOUISITE JEWELRY. THE NAVAJO MEN AND WOMEN ARE FAMOUS FOR ELEGANT JEWELRY AND THE BEAUTIFUL RUGS WHICH THEY WEAVE ON PRIMITIVE LOOMS. HOWEVER. IN THE HOPI COUNTRY THE MEN ARE THE WEAV- ERS. THE WOMEN OF THE ACOMA AND OTHER TRIBES EXCEL IN POTTERY MAKING. SEVERAL OF THE CRAFTSMEN OF DIFFER- ENT TRIBES ARE SHOWN ON THE SOPHOMORE PAGE. THE KATCHINA DOLL, ONE OF WHICH IS REPRODUCED ON THE COVER, IS IMBUED WITH GREAT RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANSE. REPRE- SENTING THE SPIRIT OF THE KATCHINA GODS. IT IS SENT DURING THE CEREMONIALS AS A MESSENGER TO THE INDIANS' ANCESTORS TO BRING BACK THEIR WISDOM AND BLESSINGS. IT IS CARVED FROM COTTON- WOOD BY THE INDIAN MEN IN THE KIVA DURING THE CEREMONIALS. LEG- ENDS SAY THAT THE KATCHINA GODS CONTROL THE RAIN, THE SNOW AND THE GROWTH OF CROPS. WE WOULD NOT BE SO BOLD AS TO DUPLICATE OR COPY THE EXCELLENT ART OF THE INDIANS. HA GAINED INSPIRATION FROM THEM, AND WE GIVE TO YOU ATION OF INDIAN LIFE AND LORE. HAVING OUR LIFE WITH THE INDIAN THEME, THE I947 COYOTE PRESENTS BOOK TO YOU THE STUDENTS OF WICHITA FALLS HIGH

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THEIR NOBLE SPIRIT WILL UR THEME TO THE MANY TRIBES OF O . BEEN LURED AND FASCINATED BY THE LEGENDS OF THE' APACHE. AJO. HOPI, COMMANCHE, TAOS. ACOMA AND ZUNI TRIBES. CEREMONIALS DRAMATIZE EVERY PHASE OF THE ANCIENT THE INDIAN ANCESTORS. THESE SACRED RITES WHICH WE TO AS DANCES ARE IN REALITY GENUINE RELIGIOUS ERS. THE CEREMONIALS WHICH THE INDIANS EXHIBIT T A COMBINATION OF THE ANCESTRAL RITES AND CA DUCED BY THE SPANIARDS. THE TRUE INDIAN WORSHIP OF NATURE. ARE ENACTED IN THE WHITE MEN HAVE BEEN ADMITTED. THE SNAKE DANCE. SHOWN ON THE IS ONE OF THE MOST ANCIENT OF THE INDIAN PURPOSE OF THIS RITUAL IS TO BRING RAIN FALO DANCE. THE FRONT FIGURE ON THE IS GIVEN DURING THE HUNTING SEASON THANKSGIVING TO THE GREAT SPIRIT. THE URE ON THE SAME PAGE, IS THE CLIMAX HOOP DANCE. SHOWN ON THE PUBLICA OF SKILL OF LONG ANCESTRAL ANOTHER PHASIZES SKIL SPORTS. THE ON THE AMONG COAST. PAGE. IS FIEI D THEIR PRIMITIVE GREATNESS AND DIGNITY THE MEMB THE I947 COYOTE STAFF WISH TO INSCRIBE THIS BOOK ALL WHO MEET THEM WITH AN OPEN HEART. BECAUSE OF , ER OF A SO GREAT IN THE TRADITIONS OF OUR AMER- ICA, THEIR NATIVE LAND, ARE THE INDIANS THAT uve AS AN INSPIRATION TO S THE SOUTHWEST we H O KIVA, TO AGE, MAIN BUF- PAGE. YER OR IN BACK FIG- THE IS A DANCE SEEN IN THEIR AS PICTURED CAN GENERAL FAVORITE FROM COAST T2 MENTIONED ON THI Y TO GOOD FORTUNE IN THE TO EVERY PHASE OF THE IN- LIFE WHICH EM- BE IS A

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