Show INDIANS HOLD HOLDS S IN iNH H RITUAL S I I Memorial to Dead Marked Marked'S S 'S by Elaborate Tribal S Rites YUMA TUMA Ariz June 4 Primitive splendor prevailed here Sunday while more than 1000 Yuma Indians I and nd their invited guests from the I Cocopah and Mojave tribes ob observed observed observed ob- ob served the Indians' Indians memorial me me- morial ceremonial for tor the tho dead Costumes as their forefathers forefathers' wore generations ago as they ob observed observed ob- ob served rites identical to those of ot today the Indians were In feverish activity from before sunrise until after midnight carrying out the time time prescribed pres ritual o of the cere cere- mony Before Defore sunup relatives of ot the dead ead with chants and dances paid tribute to 10 those who had passed be be- be yond This part of or the ritual occupied occupied occupied pied several hours Then shortly before noon twenty-nine twenty elaborately elaborate elaborate- ly ornamented images of ot th the tribes were brought into the plaza and homage was paid to them The na native native na- na tive U war chants were sung the war cry was heard and Intricate dances I were vere ere performed before ro the idols some of or them carved to a hideous Some Some o of ot the mourners worked themselves into such an intense frenzy during the ceremony it be bec became became be- be c came me necessary for other relatives to intervene and lead them to one ones s side e. e The afternoon program was somewhat in the form of or a pageant in which half halt nude warriors de depicted depicted tie tie- days of or the warpath when the value of ot the tribesman was in indirect indirect indirect direct proportion to his ability to trail tran and to fight tight Ancient methI methode methods meth meth- I ode of or Indian fighting from trailing trailing trail trail- ing to execution of ot prisoners were worked out in minute detail During the afternoon the tribesmen tribesmen tribesmen tribes tribes- men engaged in competitive tests of or strength and stamina Ability to withstand ordeals was the ob object object ob- ob feet of the tests man many of or which were painful in t the e extreme The final celebration was carried out at midnight when the twenty tent nine idols to which tribute had been paid were burned in an enormous enormous enormous enor enor- bonfire The belief bellet among the Indians is that the ceremony ex expresses ex- ex presses love 10 and adoration for tor their dead and that a faithful observance of ot the-ritual the will Insure for themselves themselves themselves them them- selves happiness in the hereafter |