THE MOKI SNAKE DANCE 1902 [SOLD]


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  • Subject: The Pueblo Indians
  • Item # C4316J
  • Date Published: First 1898, additional printing 1902
  • Size: Soft cover, 60 pages, 64 half-tone illustrations
  • SOLD

THE MOKI SNAKE DANCE 1902

A popular account of that unparalleled dramatic pagan ceremony of the Pueblo Indians of Tusayan, Arizona, with incidental mention of their life and customs

By Walter Hough, Ph.D

Published by Passenger Department The Santa Fe 

Soft cover, 60 pages, 64 half-tone illustrations from special photographs, first printing was in 1898, this one from additional printing in 1902.


From the Book

“Just at the dawn of an August morning groups of eager watchers sit along the precipitous cliffs or slopes of a mesa bearing on its crest a Moki village.  All faces are turned in one direction; the gray light becomes many-hued before the near approach of the sun. A murmur passes through the crowd; in the distance a number of dark forms are seen running toward the mesa; nearer they come, pursued by boys and girls with wands of cornstalk, and run up the tortuous trail as though on level ground.  As the sun appears above the eastern horizon the winner passes over the roof of the Snake kiva and the day of the Snake dance has begun with the Snake race.  The runners deposit the melon vines, corn and other products they have carried from the fields, and the panting victor gets for his prize the glory of winning.  As in the greek games, the Mokis honor the swift runner. . . “

Condition: excellent condition

  • Subject: The Pueblo Indians
  • Item # C4316J
  • Date Published: First 1898, additional printing 1902
  • Size: Soft cover, 60 pages, 64 half-tone illustrations
  • SOLD

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