What were Hopi homes like in the past?
Hopi people lived in adobe houses, which are multi-story house complexes made of adobe (clay and straw baked into hard bricks) and stone. Each adobe unit was home to one family, like a modern apartment. Hopi people used ladders to reach the upstairs apartments. A Hopi adobe house can contain dozens of units and was often home to an entire extended clan. Here are some pictures of Hopi adobe homes and other Indian houses. Unlike most old-fashioned Indian shelters, traditional Hopi houses are still used by some people today. Other Hopi families live in modern houses and apartment buildings, just like you. What were Hopi clothes like? Did the Hopis wear feather headdresses and face paint? Originally, Hopi men didn’t wear much clothing– only breechcloths or short kilts (men’s skirts). Hopi women wore knee-length cotton dresses called mantas. A manta fastened at a woman’s right shoulder, leaving her left shoulder bare. Missionaries didn’t think this dress style was modest enough, so in the
