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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as started by two others, and so onimtil each had a chance to wrestle for a rooster, whichin some cases passed through many hands before itwas finally won. The programme was carried out sys-tematically, as if it had been carefully prepared. After finishing the game of gallo the horsemenlined up one by one and rode by another live roosterthat had been placed in sand with only his head insight. The idea was to pick him up while riding by.Each rider eagerly watched the others as they reachedfrom the saddle and tried to catch the bird. Finallyone succeeded, and, grasping the head, ran off withthe rooster, followed by all the horsemen. He rodeout of the plaza and over the prairie, up deep arroyos,and back through the several streets of the pueblo, inhis efforts to elude his followers, and, reaching homewith it, the bird was his. Next in order came foot races by some of the young-bucks, after which some girls tried their skill at run-ning. It being San Juans Day, every one by the name of 72
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San 5uan8 Wav. Juan was obliged to contribute something to be givento the people. Accordingly all articles were carriedto the roof of one of the houses near by, and throwndown, one by one, into the crowd assembled below.Juan, possessing the name of the day, was told hemust make a contribution as the others of that namedid. Accordingly he took some birds he had previ-ously shot for our supper, and carried them to thehouse-top. All stood with upturned faces and out-stretched hands as one article after another fell intosome grasping palm. Ihe collection consisted ofpieces of leather, bright bits of calico, birds, and tor-tillas. No one became the actual owner of anythinguntil he reached home with it, and any one who couldget an article away from another before he arrivedat that place of safety was privileged to do so. Thisended the celebration, and at sundown San JuansDay was over. 75 A \ISIT TO THE SCHOOL-HOUSE. At sunrise the following morning the governorcalled loudly from his positio

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