| Show j fists to I 1 tv i et louis globe democrat Some Pueblo towns used to keep each an enormous snake in a clow roem and teed it aith children The pueblo afla cia wc nyva west I 1 i clearl de miles populated thus it had enay of enormous size kept in a room I 1 w hosa doors and were allerup alle dup in the roof was bernall hole sealed with a heavy flat rock the first day of every mouth the people drew iota to see whose child should be sacrificed to the soak t god the chosen baba was dare fully bathed and and then tossed naked down the bole to the bungy it is olly pix years since t is i daous rite ll 11 1 1 1 aped by a priest who final y P r 11 1 4 aed up on the pueblos to tear howwa the walls and kill the snake the NavA joes now t be strongest and richest tribe of indians in the country tire all enormously super oddest terror perhaps is that which aby cherish for the photographic camera plant atri d i W 0 of ajo hogan and the dusky will flee aa from the plague it is their solemn belief that a 11 ture is actually from tv entity of the sitter abat be is so much fhe less by the operation how many p lectures ti kvool be nece essary to take before POria woul I 1 ba all gone an d djs whole wing diverted into the COI anter feit X bavo never been able to but rp par atly they deem the fatality as rapid as it is certain the snake abey bold in holy abb orence of the violence of their prejudice against it I 1 bad a striking proof some years op bretler of oba the boss silver stith of the tribe is a very good friend of mine and in ade me some remarkable specimens of native jewelry on one occasion ocea sion I 1 employed him to make me a bracelet in the form of a snake ile had it about half when some of his fellows chanced to call at the bogan ly iffat they were bar when they saw what he was about is putting it very mildly they fell upon the obnoxious figure and destroyed deu troyed it and then reported chitea to the elders of the tribe who promised him an arti atio sto a ing to death if be ever dabbled again in fuch tabooed workman shir the most viv idof nav a 0 j superstitions clust L t a biar as they call him bear I 1 heap oabe an fact th I 1 kab de e him the wisest of created things his clairvoyance surpasses that of the best mediums in whom our own enlightened fellow country men believe the Nava joes never kill a bear save under the direst necessity he is all evil spirit whose wrath they are careful not to invoke it a bear kills a Nava joe and it can be proved conclusively which bear did t lie murder a large force turns out and slays the bear albeit with many lamentations and deprecations and apologies but save in this extreme case his ursine mes ty is left severely alone ifal cajoe spies a beards track or cave he takes t a his beels screaming at the top of his voice some weeks ago I 1 offered one of our herds 20 a fortune to himmie he would show me the eave of a bear which was beginning to abin the flock but the broffle I 1 a va 1 as I 1 knew it would be T he na v agoes firmly that if one of them were to allow the retreat of a bear or in any other way inbur his displeasure woul d inov the culprit and incontinently devour him find his entire family I 1 |
