Hopi Festival 2018: 3 Wuyak Voli - Hopi Big Butterfly Dance

For the first festival hosted by the National Museum of the American Indian, the Hopi people shared artist demonstrations, history presentations, and performances of music and dance. In this segment, Hopi dancers and singers demonstrate the Wuyak Voli, or Hopi Big Butterfly Dance. Bruce Talawyma gives insightful remarks about the performance and the meaning and importance of the dance for the Hopi. This performance was webcast and recorded in the museum's Rasmuson Theater on November 18, 2018.

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I danced to that song here in Zuni. For the Harvest dance this pass year in October.

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Special stuff. Thank you. May the Good Lord bless you and keep you.

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incredible performance

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Prayers for the World.

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To all my relationships kwakwa... Behind my people I see my spirit people of many...