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Show Forty Tribes Celebrate Festival at Gallup, N. M. Indian drums are sounding in the far places of the Southwest, and the Navajos, Zunis, Hopis, Utes, Apaches, Apa-ches, Lagunas, Acomas and a score of other tribesmen and their families fami-lies are trekking to "the place by the bridge," Gallup, N. M. Here each year 7,000 Indians from nearly 40 different tribes join forces to produce America's most colorful and spectacular Indian show, the annual an-nual Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial. For four days they dance, chant, compete in sports and engage in weird pagan rites before capacity audiences made up of their white brothers. The Gallup Ceremonial is the largest and most authentic Indian In-dian spectacle of its kind in the country. Usually the Ceremonial is held the last part of August. A special attraction each year is the unusual display of Indian arts and crafts in the Exhibit Hall where thousands of articles are shown. A score of native craftsmen will be at work showing the technique of Indian handicraft. |
