Chapter Vi : p. 129 CHAPTER VI. "HU-HU-HU-HU-HU-HU-HU-HU-HU-O-O-O-O! Shrill cries, succeeding one another in quick succession, ending in a prolonged shout, proceed from the outer exit of the gallery that opens upon the court-yard of the large building. The final whoop, caught up by the cliffs of the Tyuonyi...
Chapter I : p. 1 THE DELIGHT MAKERS CHAPTER I. THE mountain ranges skirting the Rio Grande del Norte on the west, nearly opposite the town of Santa F, in the Territory of New Mexico, are to-day but little known. The interior of the chain, the Sierra de los Valles, is as yet imperfectly explored. Still, these...
Chapter Viii : p. 174 CHAPTER VIII. SHOTAYE had taken no part in the great dance, and no one had missed her. It was known that whenever the Koshare appeared in public she was certain to stay at home. In point of fact she seldom left her cell, unless it was to ascend one of the mesas for the purpose of gathering...
Chapter Xix : p. 416 CHAPTER XIX. IT is contrary to the custom of the Indians for a war-party to enter their village at once upon returning. For at least one day the warriors must wait at some distance from the pueblo. They are provided with the necessaries of life, and afterward are conducted to the village...
Chapter Xx : p. 437 CHAPTER XX. SUNSHINE and showers! A dingy blue sky is traversed by white, fleecy, clouds, long mares' tails, on whose border giant thunder-clouds loom up, sometimes drifting majestically along the horizon, or crowding upward to spread, dissolve, and disappear in the zenith. It is the rainy...
Chapter V : p. 105 CHAPTER V. THE people of the Water clan dwelt at the western end of the cliffs which border the Tyuonyi on the north. They occupied some twenty caves scooped out along the base of the rock, and an upper tier of a dozen more, separated from the lower by a thickness of rock averaging not over...
Chapter Xvii : p. 368 CHAPTER XVII. OKOYA had been correct in his surmise that Shotaye was gone. In vain Say Koitza pined; her friend had left never to return. When the news of Topanashka's death reached her, which it did on the very night of the occurrence, she saw at a glance that henceforth her presence among...
Chapter Xv : p. 326 CHAPTER XV. "DID you find that?" asked the shaman. "Yes, I found it. I and Hayash Tihua together." "Where?" "On the kauash, on the trail that leads to the north." "Who killed sa nashtio?" the chayan further inquired. He alone carried on the investigation; Hoshkanyi Tihua had mingled with...
Chapter X : p. 220 CHAPTER X. AT the time of which we are speaking, the chief civil officer of the tribe at the Rito,--its tapop, or as he is now called, governor,--was an Indian whose name was Hoshkanyi Tihua. Hoshkanyi Tihua was a man of small stature; his head was nearly round, or rather pear-shaped...
Chapter Xiii : p. 289 CHAPTER XIII. WHEN, at the close of the eventful meeting of the council at which the accusation against Shotaye and Say Koitza had fallen like a thunderbolt upon the minds of all present, the principal shamans warned the members of that council to keep strict silence and to fast or pray...
Chapter Xiv : p. 307 CHAPTER XIV. MORE than eight days had elapsed since the one on which Shotaye had pledged her new friend, the Tehua warrior, to meet him at the homes of his tribe. She had not redeemed that pledge. In appearance she was unfaithful to Cayamo, as her knight was called; and yet her lack...
Chapter Ii : p. 26 CHAPTER II. THE homes of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, especially as regards the size and disposition of the rooms, are to-day slightly modified from what they were in former times. An advance has been made, inasmuch as the buildings are not any longer the vast and ill-ventilated...
Chapter Xxi : p. 465 CHAPTER XXI. AUTUMN in New Mexico, as well as in many other parts of the world, is the most beautiful time of the year. The rains are over, and vegetation is refreshed and has developed. Yellow flowers cover the slopes of the higher ranges; the summits are crowned with glistening snow...
Chapter Iv : p. 80 CHAPTER IV. A BRIGHT morning followed the night on which Tyope underwent his adventures. He slept long, but it attracted no undue attention and called forth no remarks on the part of his wife and daughter. They were wont to see him come and go at any hour of the night. It was very near no...
In Memory : p. xxv IN MEMORY ONE day of August, 1888, in the teeth of a particular New Mexico sand-storm that whipped pebbles the size of a bean straight to your face, a ruddy, bronzed, middle-aged man, dusty but unweary with his sixty-mile tramp from Zui, walked into my solitary camp at Los Alamitos. With...
Conclusion : p. 485 CONCLUSION. AFTER twenty-one long and it may be tedious chapters, no apology is required for a short one in conclusion. I cannot take leave of the reader, however, without having made in his company a brief excursion through a portion of New Mexico in the direction of the Rito de los...
Chapter Ix : p. 194 CHAPTER IX. THE interview between Okoya and Hayoue, which took place at almost the same time that Shotaye fell in with the Tehua Indian on the mesa, had completely changed the mind of Say Koitza's eldest son, and turned his thoughts into another channel. He saw clearly now to what extent he...
Chapter Xvi : p. 347 CHAPTER XVI. LAMENTATIONS over a dead body are everywhere a sad and sickening performance to witness and to hear. Among the aborigines of New Mexico--among the sedentary tribes at least--the official death-wail is carried on for four days. The number four plays a conspicuous rle...
Chapter Xi : p. 242 CHAPTER XI. THE four days at the expiration of which the council was to take place were drawing to a close, for it was the night of the fourth, that on which the uuityam was to meet. It was a beautiful night; the full moon shone down into the gorge in its greatest splendour, and only along...
Chapter Xviii : p. 391 CHAPTER XVIII. THE change from night to daylight in New Mexico is by no means sudden. Darkness yields slowly to the illumination streaming from the east; and when the moon is shining, one remains in doubt for quite a while whether the growing brightness is due to the mistress of night...
Chapter Vii : p. 155 CHAPTER VII. AMONG Indians any great feast, like the dance of the ayash tyucotz described in the preceding chapter, is not followed by the blue Monday with which modem civilization is often afflicted. Intoxicating drinks were unknown to the sedentary inhabitants of New Mexico previous...
Chapter Xii : p. 271 CHAPTER XII. AT the time when the tribal council of the Queres was holding the stormy session which we have described in the preceding chapter, quite a different scene was taking place at the home of the wife of Tyope. That home, we know, belonged to Hannay, the woman with whom Tyope had...
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Chapter Iii : p. 60 CHAPTER III. WE must now return to the fields of the Rito, and to the spot where, in the first chapter of our story, Okoya had been hailed by a man whom he afterward designated as Tyope Tihua. That individual was, as we have since found, the former husband of Shotaye, Say's ill-chosen friend...
Preface : p. xxiii PREFACE THIS story is the result of eight years spent in ethnological and archological study among the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico. The first chapters were written more than six years ago at the Pueblo of Cochiti. The greater part was composed in 1885, at Santa F, after I had bestowed...