Show SNAKE DANCE IS I THEIR PET HOBBY i Mr and Mrs Kemp Secured Motion Pictures of Famous Indian Rite THEY ENDURED HARDSHIPS Flood a and Sn Took look oo A All 1 I i Possessions Pos los sessions c lous limit Hut Camera Clothes Tile They Wore Every summer for or six sIx years ear past Mr Mm 11 an and Mrs Irs Edward H. H 1 Kemp ho who arc 10 stopping at al the Kenyon have been studying Indian life and what Is more moro to the tho purpose collecting some of or the best Indian pictures that have over o been een secured b by a n camera This enterprising couple has the tho proud distinction of possessing the only series of o motion moton pictures depictIng depicting depicting depict depict- ing tIme the famous snake lance dance Indulged In by ly tho the Hopi In Indians lans of or northern Arizona Arizona This record will wi bo be short short- lived however for at tho ho present timo there are arc four fOUl distinct parties partes lying in wait to ree reel off of the exposures exposure as a soon as the lie danco damico occurs occurs Mrs Mis Komp is a n pretty little lite California Call Cali Cul- Cul fornia woman while her husband Is Isan Isan isan an Englishman who Is reckoned the tho most artistic of oC photographic plates in th the business to today ay Together Together To To- gether ehe the they have o ha traveled tra hun hundreds reds of miles In search of oC novelty novely pictures pictures pic pie tures Lures anti and during the process have experIenced experienced ex ox- Innumerable adventures living for or months amon among the Indians lans before thc they could get et their confidence an and amid so secure pictures and anti data data Until recently time the they have havo o ha spent spen their winters on the lie Major Pond lecture lecture lec lec- ture bureau tours In the East but bu they lie have ha now broken into vaudeville vaude vaude- yule ville with wih a daring experiment prior to coming comins here where the they appear appeal appeal at the tIme the they appeared 01 on the tho circuit houses in San Francisco FrncIsco an and amid Los Ls Angeles Apparently they made a hit in both cities cites Fun Fiut With I I Indians With all al the talk about Sec See America Ameria First I sl said Mr Ir Kemp yes terIa I 1 have often ofen wondered why the tourist does docs not make it I a point to see sc the tho intensely interesting snake nake and dances that are held belt from froni rom time to time but outside o ot of the scientists none seem to care to travel oft off the thi- beaten heaten routes to witness these sacred rites ries of the red redman man M My 1 wife and I 1 have lost all al our OU provisions provision and wagon in freshets braved sandstorms sandstorms sandstorms sand sand- storms breakdowns an and amid the scores o of i unpleasant experiences ces o of tho the desert Wo Ve have slept in tho ho dwellings s of th the Hopis Hopi's with a buck huck squaw and anti family fam fam- II I ily occupying the lie other corner COner of or the time common room we have eaten from the time common pot with wih the thc hosts of or orthe the hour hOU and amid ane done domme all aU those things associated with wih getting n next to na- na turo Wo Yo have bavo hail had hal lots of or fun rUn out of the In Indians and I guess Jues th they have havo had oven even more mOle out o of us One Ono of our oh most interesting trips was that taken some months ago to secure motion moton r pictures All An we t e teI saved I from the time wash in Arizona were our camera and the clothes we wo stood in the time rest went down tho ho tream stream It I took tool us four days lays to make the trip from rom Holbrook to ant and then when we arrived at our oum destination destina- destina tion our troubles not noL over ton After getting solid sold with our ho hosts Ls 3 and n Just prior to the commencement of tho lie dance lance a a sandstorm s arose alose Fortunately Fortunately For For- Innately we had secured a stron 1 blanket and hastily hasty throwing throwIng it I over ove overlie the tho lie machine we wo grasped all ul four Cour corners corners cor cor- ners umers and hung humig on like grim death eath That saved ell a the day for u us The Tho dance only lasts a about out f twenty minutes am and we got ot It I In er e every detail from start t to finish rattlesnakes and amid all al Several ot the Indians were sere bitten liLen but lut up up- l suffered no harm for Cor or the tho have some sonic mysterious antidote known only nJ to the head woman oman an and her hor sue sue- cessor Intensely nI Religious lous Kite Any ono ommo who thinks that hint the tho snake u dance Is 19 one Just for the fun of oC th the lie thing Is seriously Jy misinformed It I i ian Is an arm UI Intensely religious rite rie and anc one ono only exercised when rain Is needed Tho The Indian Inclan belief Is that the snakes snake act as mo messengers to the lie spirits spirIs In the round ground rIme Tho rc red man believes that hi his supplications will wi be carried by ly tho the reptiles to the these e spirits spiris None know when the tho dance will wil bo be held It I usually usual usual- J ly occurs between August 1 15 and 30 Nine days das before the tIme time set et the tho heat head priest sends out runners and ani the tho In IndIans In- In Hans congregate ate to participate in iii the ceremony Only tho the fact that the lancers dancers were so 50 intent in their core core- mony made It possible for Cor us to secure the tIme pictures for or you know they hate haLo t to tl bo 10 hI made mado subjects for the lie camera camera While Mrs Mis Kemp Is Il a lecturer her husband is 11 no dull dul con er conversationalist an and has a n fund of oC dry humor that I Is Irresistible He lie tol told a of striking ing In Indian lan Gardens half way from the lie I Irim rim rita of or time the Grand canyon eanon to the tIme river below u a few months ago aso on a Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- and amid finding every everyone one about tho ho place observing the time Sabbath Finally Finaly to settle the argument that followed I thou their arrival tho the proprietor telephoned to the big bl hot hotel J. J As he eventually hun hung I UI up the receiver he tal said ald Get off or those duds boys bos and get set to work That d I.- I. cook cooJ gave us fish on Thursday and throw threw us a day out on the al almanac al- al manac As two to of tho the hired lured help I were Catholics the cook had to take tako taketo to the woods woods' for Cor giving them thorn beet beef leer on Friday |