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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo15amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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IXDIAX DANCES OF THE SOUTHWEST 113 cannot be seen by outsiders and must be studied from information and native drawings, still similar ones are danced in the open in the Hopi villages of Arizona. The dramatic instinct comes out strongly in some of these secret dances. This is particularly true of the ceremonies preceding the arrival of the masked dancers who represent mythological beings. These mythological be- ings are supposed to live in the under world and to come up throughlakes and springs when they visit the upper world. The Chiffoneti or clowns are the inter- mediaries between mor- tals and these gods. The caciques deter- mine when a masked dance is to^be held^and they select the dancers. The latter are locked up for four days and puri- fied by fasting and ablu- tion. At the appointed time all the villagers go to the underground lodge and seat themselves in readiness for the per- formance. Soon two clowns appear at the hatchway in the roof and come down the lad- der. They make merry with the spectators. Then one says to the other, " My brother, from what lake shall we get our masked dancers to-night?" "Oh, I don't know. Let's try Dawn Canon Lake. Mavbe some Cloud People are stopping there." Then one clown takes some ashes from the fireplace and blows it out in front of him. "Look brother," he says, "do you see any Cloud People?" They
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^:Phuto by E. IT. Dcming One of the side dancers in the Buffalo Dance, San Ildefonso Pueblo Indians, 1893. A buffalo horn on one side and tliree eagle feathers on the other decorate the head. The crosses painted on the body are magical de\ices supposed to aid in the hunting of buffalo

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1915
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  • bookyear:c1900-[1918]
  • bookdecade:c190
  • bookcentury:c100
  • bookauthor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York_American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
  • bookleafnumber:153
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