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Subject: Dead Media Working Note 09.9
Dead medium: Hopi town criers
From: carapace_AT_well.com (Eric Mankin)
Source: "The Bedbugs' Night Dance and other Hopi Sexual
Tales," Collected, translated and edited by Ekkehard
Malotki. Published for the University of Northern Arizona
by the University of Nebraska Press, 1995
page 367.
"In the past when a Hopi wished to inform his fellow
villagers of certain things, he would petition someone to
make a public announcement on his behalf. At other times,
a formal announcement could be made by the tsa'akmongwi,
or official 'village crier.'
"To broadcast his message,the crier always climbed on
a rooftop. The opening formula of his announcement usually
sounded as follows: 'Those of you people out there heed my
words.' The conclusion was equally formalized: 'This is
the announcement I was instructed to make known to you.
That's about it.' Whenever the crier shouted out his
announcement, he typically drew out the last word of each
sentence.
Eric Mankin (carapace_AT_well.com)
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