Edmund and June Nequatewa, 1934. Photo Id: E-100(1934).047.
Edmund Nequatewa
Nequatewa was born in the village of Shungopavi about 1880, to a clan position which placed him in a role of responsibility and authority with respect to certain ceremonial functions. When the Museum of Northern Arizona was established, he joined the staff officially as maintenance crew, but assisted the Coltons in many ways. Edmund accompanied Mary Russell-Ferrell Colton when she initiated the Hopi shows, traveling with her to Hopi villages, serving as interpreter, and encouraging the Hopi artists to create and submit their works for Museum display. Edmund was recognized by the Museum as a wise counselor, interpreter of his people, ethnologist, philosopher, folklorist, and ever-dependable aide.
During his tenure with the Museum, Edmund Nequatewa imparted knowledge which was incorporated into the following Museum publications:
1931 Hopi Hopwime: the Hopi Ceremonial Calender. Museum Notes vol. 3 no. 9 March 1931. Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona
1932 Hopi Legends of the Sunset Crater Region. With Mary Russell-Ferrell Colton and H.C. Colton. Museum Notes vol. 5, no.4, October 1932. Musem of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona.
1933 Hopi Courtship and Marriage, Second Mesa. With Mary Russell-Ferrell Colton. Museum Notes vol. 5 no. 9 March 1933. Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona
1938 Dr. Fewkes and Masauwu, the Birth of a Legend. Museum Notes vol. 11, no. 2 Aug. 1938 Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona.
1939 Miniature Pottery. Plateau vol. 12, no. 1, July 1939. Museum of Norhtern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona.
1940 The Morning-Echo Days: The Old Hopi Way of Life. Plateau vol. 13 no. 1, July 1940. Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona.
1943 Nampeyo, famous Hopi potter. Plateau vol. 15, no. 3, Jan. 1943. Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona.
1955 The Destruction of Elden Puebo, A Hopi Story.. Plateau vol. 28 no. 2, Oct. 1955. Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona.
1971 Leaves from a Hopi Doctor’s Casebook. With Alfred Whiting. Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine vol. 47 no. 1, July 1939
1991 Dr. Fewkes Plays Like a Child. In Native American Testimony ed. By Peter Nabokov. Viking Publications, New York.
1993 Born a Chief: The Nineteenth Century Hopi Boyhood of Edmund Nequatewa, , as told to Alfred F. Whiting / edited by P. David Seaman. The University of Arizona Press