By Alanson Skinner Assistant Curator of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York Whoever visits the Hopi falls perforce under the magic influence of their life and personality. If anyone entertains the belief that "a good Indian is a dead Indian," let him travel to the heart of the Southwest and dispel his illusions in the presence of the sturdy, self-supporting, self-respecting citizens of the pueblos. Many sojourns in a region whose fascinations are second to no other, experiences that were happy and associations with a people who interest all coming in contact with them combined to indite the following pages. If the writer may seem biased in favor of the "Quaker Indians…
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