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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and wended their way in the direction of the estufa,where the participants congregated previous to theirappearance in the plaza. When the dancers had collected and the word wasgiven to start, the first set, about thirty in number, filedfrom the estufa into the plaza, marching in lines twoabreast. They were followed by a band of chanters,consisting of the bucks who were too old to dance.The dancers were beautifully decorated. The buckswere stripped to the waist, their hands and part ofthe forearms painted Avhite, from which ran a line ofwdrite spots to the shoulder, and then down to thesmall of the back, resembling the fallow deer. Onthe upper part of the arms were armlets of rawhide,also painted white, through which were stuck greensprigs of the cottonwood tree. Around the waist wasa white belt or sash of wool, having large tassels onthe ends, and holding in place an embroidered skirtreaching nearly to the knee. White knee breecheswere worn under the skirt. Around the left leg w^as 38
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Zo San iriDefonso. a band of worsted tied in a bow, and around the righta string of bells. From the back of the belt lumo; theskin of the red fox. White moccasins, with a decora-tion of skunk .skin at the heel, completed the costume.Each carried in his right hand rattles made fromgourds which grow wild in large quantities near theIndian villages; and in the left, branches of the Cot-tonwood tree. The squaw wore a head decoration of peculiar de-sign, made of a thin llat board, in shajie similar tothe fafade of the Indian church. It had tlirce ser-rated vertical projections, with an open space in thecentre as if for a bell. It was painted white, withborders of green and yellow, and from the peaksfloated the feathers of the wild turkey. The dresswas of black woollen material, and hung a little belowthe knee. It was gathered over the right shoulderand again under the left arm, leaving the arms andone shoulder bare. A woollen belt of unique designand bright coloring offset the costume and

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