Show MADE INDIANS MAD SAVAGES' SAVAGES STRONG OBJECTION TO BEING PHOTO PHOTOGRAPHED Woman Tells of Trip to Ancient City of Taos Which Scorns to Have Been Highly Exciting Saw ExcIting Saw Feast and Dance During a Journey through the practically practically unknown Southwest somebody suggested that I go to the ancient city of Thos 11 for the feast of Sun San Geronimo I Mrs C. C R. R Miller writes in You wont won't find photographing ng these Indians an easy Job but if you succeed succeed succeed suc suc- you will get something Interest- Interest Ing Taos Is the ancient pueblo about eighty miles from Santa Fe and und reached by a highway which Is only u trail over a stony mesa Somebody called out that the dance was at the south pueblo and there was wasa wasti a ti rush across the logs logs' which served as bridges over the little stream which runs through the reservation There we found perhaps a hundred Indians wrapped In lu white muslin robes and carrying branches of trees In their hands They were making makinI a weird noise and limping up and down as they marched around the pue pueblo lo It was wasa a strange scene The movement of ot their bodies was slight but the expression expression expression ex ex- ex- ex I on their faces and the low guttural utterances showed suppressed i emotion and suddenly directly In front of where I was standing one of the I older warriors fell tell to tits the ground Inan in inan inan an epileptic fit He was at once carried car car- carried ried Into the pueblo and the medicine man summoned The dancers however however how how- however ever were not disturbed and the uncanny uncanny uncanny un un- un- un canny performance went on for 15 minutes longer This was merely the prologue to the feast of ot the morrow The footraces foot footraces footraces races were hotly contested by the young braves of ot the two pueblos Tile The participants were nuked except for tor a kilt about the loins and were decorated deco deco- decorated rated with feathers In their hair hall on their arms and their ankles The race Is run In a peculiar fashion When the Judges give the Ule word two men dart from the course nearest the pueblo anti and run swiftly to the other end The Instant Instant instant In In- stant the leader reaches a certain stone at the end of ot the course another man of ot his clan clun takes up the race and rushes past him on the home stretch This Is kept up until all the contestants contestants contestants contest contest- ants have had trial trial the the final victory being a victory for the clan and not for the Individual runner The pueblo pueblo pu eblo winning the race ruce Is entitled to tol l keep the statue of ot St. St Geronimo forthe for tor forthe the following year ear Early In the afternoon the Indian clowns known as the delight makers rush suddenly from the pueblos Their TheIl faces and antI naked bodies are ure smeared with paint and their hair entwined with corn husks Nothing Nettling Is sacred to their touch and they will steal fruit from a vendors vendor's wagon and perhaps after utter taking a mouthful spit It at ut some visitor They object to being photographed photographed photo photo- graphed and sud when one saw me In III the fire thenet act net of taking his picture he lie came at atme atme atme me with a n rush yelling In a n savage fashion I was sitting on a log and ond h he sat down beside me so close that 1 narrowly escaped falling off He yelled and ond gesticulated but I sat perfectly still and pretended not to see him Theman The Theman Themon man mon who had sold me me my ray permit came come up behind and aid said something Finally he left but all during the afternoon attl w whenever enever I attempted to take n a picture picture picture pic pic- ture dirt was thrown at me and all the curses known to their savage traditions traditions tra tm- were wished on me The delight delight delight de de- light makers beat tin pans at horses and caused several runaways s and mid frightened children almost Into spasms |