Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-06-12 | Page 5 | Tribe Which Lives for Day Vanishes with Fires' Smoke

Tube Tribe Which Lives For Day Vanishes With Fires Fires' Smoke Disband After Aftel Annual Ceremonies Which Recall Old Days of Aborigines Ab origines Br Ur Au 0 ct d 4 Press mil PRESCOTT Ariz June 12 A 12 A tribe of f copp hued copper Indians which lived for tor a day has vanished with the smoke of its ceremonial fires Yesterday almost men men arrayed in the vestments of the Red man executed the dervish dances which were old when Estevan the Barbary Moor first set foot on the ground thaIs that tha thatIs Is 18 now Arizona Today the tribe had hac dissolved into its modem modern surrounding surround tog ing for the Indians were lawyers merchants and their ilk Called together once a D year the the the name is a pure liven seek Uon-seek seek to perpetuate the ceremonial ceremonial cere cere- dances of Arizona's abort gInes the Hopis and Navajos among the others other No comedy this thi for each member of the is a con con- student of ot Indian tribal his tory Yesterday the performed their five dances for the thirteenth consecutive year before an audience of ot thousands including members of ot the HopI Hop and Navajo tribes come com to witness the ceremonials on which they had placed their stamp of ot ap provat Against a background which was a replica of ot an Indian mesa dwelling the lie dancing took place As tho the chanters chanters chanters' chant chant- ers err intoned Indian songs the ceremonies ceremonies ceremonies cere cere- monies began first with the sundance sun sundance sundance dance by the buffalo kachina ka kat china eagle dance and finally the famous snake ceremonial ceremonial the tho Hop HopI tribes tribe's prayer for rain Of the five perhaps the sun and snake dances the latter to the quickening quick ening beat of the tom tom-tom are the most Impressive The sun god appears appears ap ap- ap pears to emphasize hi his powers ant and direct his four priests representing the four corners comers of ot the earth to ten tell his people of ot their gods god's supremacy The sun god dispels night and clouds All the tribe participate in the snake dance They carry live serpents ser gods penis gods of the underworld underworld and and pray that bountiful rains may fall faU on their crops As tAs the sun sets ant and the tribal priests bless both dancers dancer and their little brothers the snakes the run in the four directions of ot the compass to release the serpents which tradition says bear to the underworld th the prayers of ot the tribe