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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came upon a very small boy at play, whowas apparently suffering from the effects of a severecold and sore throat. Not a vestige of clothingadorned the well-developed form of the little fellowsave a good-sized piece of red ilannel clumsily woundaround his neck. After photographing the bucks, who with Lorenzohad arrived soon after our encounter with our littlefriend, we bade all good-by and retiirned to town. Having occasion during the afternoon to enter theplazuela around which the hotel is built, we sawquite a company collected at one end of the court-yard watching a little Indian boy dance. His father,a large buck from the pueblo, was seated in the cen-tre, beating on an old tin pan and singing the usualIndian song, with peculiar nasal intonation. Theboy had been dancing for twenty minutes, and afterour arrival continued for fully ten more. When atlast the dance ended he seemed perfectly exhausted,and fell in the arms of his mother, w^ho was standing by proudly watching her boy. i86
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HOMEWARD BOUND. Our trip to Embudo next morniiif^ was enlivened by the antics of a pair of young bronchos with which the journey was to be made. The load, consisting of five people, the baggage and a bale of hay, together with the weight of the wagon, was enough to warrant a slower rate of speed than that witli which the young horses dashed off, but they seemed not to mind the weight in the least. At a sharp curve in the road the driver found it impossible to guide the horses around the bend, and the wagon was pulled over an embankment. The horses then started rnnning over the plain, and in crossing a ditch the chain holding the body of the wagon on the truck snapped. jSIean- while the men of the front seat pulled on the lines, nearly drawing the wagon body over on the excited animals. When the horses finally (piicted down, and the wagon had been pulled on the road, the driver fixed the chain with hay wire, and another start was 189 Bmonci tbc pueblo ITnMans. made. The horses again ru

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