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28 THE ILEX of a popular tune assailed my ears, and I gravitated in that direction. Nor did I gravitate alone. A young Indian tossed the words to me as he swifty passed: 'Merican Dance! Wishing to see how an American dance in the old Indian pueblo would be conducted, I followed him and was courteously invited inside by one of the braves at the door, who shooed all the watching loungers out of the door that I might enter. But the two girls who were dancing became shy at my presence and soon stopped danc- ing, and not wishing to spoil their fun, I withdrew as soon as I politely could. How- ever, ,the dance pointed to most modern tendencies in this laughing, handsome, dark- skinned group. The Indians much prefer the gaudy cotton blankets which they can buy at the ready-made stores to the marvelous designs they weave themselves, and to some extent are beginning to commercialize their weaving and pottery work. And may it be noticed, that while the head of the house lounges in the shade made of a few upright sticks and a blanket, the lady of the house stands on the top of the hill, a few feet away, and holds up odd bits of pottery and trinkets to the traveler, in the hopes that she may have a chance to haggle over the price with you. It is the practice among those who know Indians never to offer more than a third of her first price, gradually increasing your offers as she decreases hers in order to make a sale. Perhaps the final compromise will be about the correct price, as the Indian always asks more than she has any notion of receiving. The Indians are just as fond of trinkets as ever, and wear bright beads by the yard, and bracelets by the dozen. The charm of the Indian country can not be told by word or picture. Just rocks and just Indians present to one something entirely new with a charm that leaves one wishing they might stay on forever, and watch the shadows shift over the little adobe pueblos, watch the Indians and their quaint customs, and become part of this romantic country. It calls you back, and you must go, to the land of just rocks and just Injunsf' DOROTHY PATTON, '27. .S N ' gt ,, Q, 4, I ?V'P 16 22135 V lf- K 'ff Diggs 3 ASQ O41 ' my ' ah- Q'
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THE ILEX 27 The Lure of the Old Southwest No, Sir-ee! I'm not going to Arizona and New Mexico again! Hottest place you ever saw and nothing there but just rocks and Injunsf' To the visitor who travels through, that is allg to the man who really sees, it is a land of exotic appealg almost a Land of Make-believe, taken from pages of an old Spanish fairy tale. Only here do we find Grand Canyons: here are volcanic cinder conesg here do people live in Spanish style adobe houses, and here do we find the Red man as he exists today. This is the only country in the world where the Indian is at homey at home as he has been for thousands of years. His adobe communal houses are made in the same old wayg his council chambers still hold the sacred fire, and his rugs and pottery are fashioned as they were when Cortez coveted them. The country everywhere is dotted with tiny Indian settlements and villages in their little pueblos, and without doubt, one of the most interesting of them all is Acoma, where I went to see the Corn Dance, a religious festival held in celebration of the completion of the harvestg a thanks to the Great Spirit who has given the Indians another year of plenty. Acoma means Sky-City, and indeed, the oldest continually inhabited Indian pueblo in the world is well named, for it rests on a rock which rises sheer and square out of the earth to a height of four hundred and twenty-five feet. Imagine the thrill of climbing the long, tortuous pathway upward, using the same steps and handhelds cut in the rock that the Indians used when they rushed to safety from the Spanish invaders. Once arrived, rather breathlessly, you see a sight that seems almost unreal. The houses, if such they may be called, are not built separately, a house to a family, but are built in long rows, the rooms all opening one into another. The houses are two to three stories high, of adobe of course, as all houses of the Southwest, and shaky little wooden ladders form the elevators, which the many dogs climb and descend with all the ease of the Indians. In the Sky-City, a tiny lake has been naturally formed in the hollow of the rock, and furnishes water for the ponies. The Indians, even in the oldest and most secluded pueblos, are a curious mixture of the old and new. An old Indian chief partcipating in the Corn Dance struck me as having about the most notably incongruous costume of all. An exceedingly fine pair of beaded Indian moccasins adorned liis feet, loose trousers of a white muslin-like material were gathered close to his knees with bright colored woolen yarns, which dangled in engaging loops at the sidesg a man3s,wp,urple checked coat shirt hung to its full and gaudy length nearly to his knees, and biuttonedi triumphantly, over all was an old grey vest, that probably was in style with his white brothers about l9l0. To this rusty vest was attached one of the most beautiful blue fox skins I have ever seen. Each Indian brave had one of these skins, which, it seems, are very highly prized, and carefully taken care of. No wonder, for they are certainly wonderful skins ,beautifully dressed. But everywhere throughout the Indian section, one is constantly seeing such instances of the ridiculous. However, a great many of the Indians, and especially the younger braves who attended the reservation schools, are very neatly dressed, and certainly are not, as is commonly supposed, a race without humor. And they are extremely polite. Visitors to Acgma were treated as royalty. At the same time the Corn Dance was progressing in all its maze of color and glory of weird song and muffled tom-tom, observed stoically by the older Indians, strains
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