Note 940 — CONCLUSION

J. W. Fewkes, “Tusayan Katcinas,” Fifteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, 1897, p. 255. The Hopi furnish one of the few instances of compulsory rest days to be found among the American Indians. They hold a mid-winter festival, called the soyáluña, at the time of the winter solstice. “December is regarded as a sacred month; no work is performed in it, and few games are allowed. It is the month of the return of the sun and the gods, and bears the same name as July, in which they depart” (J. W. Fewkes, “The Winter Solstice Ceremony at Walpi,” American Anthropologist, 1898, xi, 69).