Identifier: newmexicolandofd00jamerich (find matches)
Title: New Mexico, the land of the delight makers : the history of its ancient cliff dwellings and pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards, Franciscan missions; personal accounts of the ceremonies, games, social life and industries of its Indians; a description of its climate, geology, flora and birds, its rivers and forests; a review of its rapid development, land-reclamation projects and educational system; with full and accurate account of its progressive counties, cities and towns
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: New Mexico -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : The Page company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e children of the pueblo wereto meet me at Tata Lorenzos house, to have a proces-sion of their own, and be treated to dulces. In halfan hour we were surrounded by a happy, shouting, ges-ticulating mob, howling and laughing, as we threw hand-fuls of candy in the air in every direction, and let theyoungsters scramble for it. Then, as the padre played the airs on his cornet, Itaught the youngsters to sing them, which they did witha vim and an accent that made them very amusing.When they had learned John Browns Body LiesMoldring in the Grave and Marching Through Geor-gia, we formed a procession, and, led by the cornet, thewhole mob of us started to procession the town, singingthese two songs, just as the religious procession hadmarched through the town in the morning. In a fewmoments every housetop had its Indian occupants, andsmiling bronzed faces of papas and mamas, aunts and Dance at the Fiesta de San Esteban at Acoma. From a Painting made expressly for the author byEva Almond Withrow.
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Acoma, the City of the Cliffs 1.71 uncles, cousins, grandpas and grandmas, were wavingand shouting greeting to the happy, boisterous band ofyoungsters and the jolly-hearted priest and the white menwho were making a festival for the little ones. No idea of hurting the Indians feelings entered ourminds, for I knew they were too simple-hearted, too fondof their own fun to regard this as any other than good-natured amusement. Indeed, in several of their cere-monies — as with the Zunis and other Pueblos — theyhave Delight Makers who openly caricature nearlyeverything done by their shamans in their sacred cere-monials. Everybody was delighted. Everybody wTas radiantlyhappy. Everybody thought it a grand conclusion to theinteresting and happy day. But even when all the children had been dismissed andwe had returned to Lorenzos house, we found the pro-gram was not yet completed. Tata Lorenzo had so en-joyed the playing of the cornet that he had requested thepadre to give him and his family

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