Identifier: amongpuebloindia00eick (find matches)
Title: Among the Pueblo Indians
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Eickemeyer, Carl Eickemeyer, Lilian Westcott, joint author
Subjects: Pueblo Indians
Publisher: New York, The Merriam company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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t is a conspicuous figure in the vil-lage. The building is lighted only by means of anopening in the roof. This opening also serves asentrance to the place. Having climbed the stepsthat lead to the roof, we entered through the hatch-way and descended by a ladder, the poles of whichprotruded high above the building. All that couldbe seen in the dimly-lighted room was the fire-place,in the centre directly under the ladder, and anadobe settee projecting from the wall of the build-ing. Finding very little of interest in the bare,dark room, we wended our way in the direction ofthe home of the governor to pay our respects to thatcelebrity. He was seated in the front room of his little house,busily engaged making moccasins. We watched himfor some time at this humble occupation, greatly in-terested in his work. He pierced small holes in thesoles, and corresponding ones in the uppers, throughwhich he ran pieces of sinew. The bead work for which the Indian is famous is done in a similar way. 26
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tTo San IllDcfonso. When Ave had become well versed in the art of shoe-making, the governor left his work and took us intoan inner room, where his wife was grinding wheat.She was kneeling before a slanting stone slab, andwith a small oblong-shaped stone in her hand sherubbed the wheat between the two in a way similarto rubbing clothes on a washboard. This work isalways done by the women. By the aid of our interpreter quite a lengthy con-versation was carried on with the governor, in whichthe affairs of the pueblo were discussed. The gov-ernment was one of the first subjects inquired into,and we were greatly surprised to find such a complexform existing. It is twofold in character, resemblingboth the monarchial and republican. The former isexemplified in the office of cacique, or chief, who wasoriginally appointed for life by the governor of NewMexico, to be succeeded by his eldest son. The lat-ter, or republican form, is shown by the annual elec-tion of a governor and twelve councilme

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