New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 6, 1926, Page 12

12 NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1926. MACAW IS BIRD HIGHLY PRIZED i Tribe of Indians Would Pay Any Price Washington, D C.. Aug. 6 Yuifilling a promise of a year's wanding. Dr. Neil M. Judd .leader of the National Geographic society expeditions to Pueblo Bonito, New Mexico, recently presented to mem- bers of the Zuni tribe a gift for vhich they would gladly have paid ) turquoise. 1t was a live, brilllant Mexican macaw, a bird full of mean- ing to certain of the Indians; yet only a few members of the tribe had aver before seqy,one of these bright- v feathered parrots. lach of the dozen or more clans (individuals related through the maternal line) at Zunl has its own lan totem: the bear, badger, coyote, P | through serbal description, handed |habits. down from one generation to an- other. Two years ago a small dele-| “Tak Zuni Nature Fakirs ng advantage of my limited pueblo near Albuquerque trade turquoise orna caw feathers. T macaws at San Domingo, o through exchange with Mexicans, Recognize Pletures “During past at Pueblo |ing through Bonito al of my Zuni ‘excav-{to attack ation the M camp ik there ents for ere are (wo ve two boys, Priest a- [the in my presence | ha |of from two hundred to three hun dred and, as the’ see a man pass the forest, swoop down him. The moola lan. Pictares in our [of human y verified descriptions of |dangerons in the moo’a, to g the Zuni name [the Sun Priest of the macaw. These men were |second hopeful lad that tne macaw highly pleased last fall when 1 told [was apt fo die if he did not get the {them 1 should try to obtain for kind of food to which he had grown tlesh captivi and extremely Previously. entire Macaw clan. Zuni I found t carefully laid|for the naca- in behalf of his plans pere intended to divert my|people. Word came to camp last purpose and bring something of an |week end that the Sun Priest and individual reward. Two of the boys |the macaw had established friendly had made it known that the bird |relations and that both were quite was to be a present to each, indi- |content. vidually, and I suppose each of “No one knows how long the pair had already tak for [Moola people have been re q moola teathers, able |in Zuni. Tradition 3 the articles adornment in certain fup out of the fourth world with t} and in the preparation |other clans in that dim, distant past of | gation went to San Domingo, a Tewa |Zuni vocabulary and still hoping to |al Geographic society’s explorations to [obtain the bird for himself one of |in told |ove that in their native |r t the macaws gather in flocks i:\r(lwn'onv‘ al evidence, doned was | e been members of credited with being especially fond |m had learned from the |have found the perches on them a five bird, as a gift to the |accustomed. But after an hour's dis- [fed. with the bird. Ancient Bonitans Kept Captive Birds “During the course of the Nation- Pueblo Bonito, w thirty And Pueblo have found skelctons of the g Bonito, from was 3 approximately 1 years appears then that the in- f this great prehistoric must have obtained live s through barter with the of central Mexico. The birds | were kept here in captivity for we which | tethered and we have corn, pinyon nuts and | seeds on which they were | he Macaw clan doubtless 1go. It they h found bec |cussion the fears of the Priest were |wielded a considerable influence at | “But this spring when T arrived at [elirrinated and he consented to care |Puchblo Bonito. | “One may imagine sandaled | Mexican Indians carrying on their | back cages containing live | macaws, captured in tropical for- | trudging acrcss the hot sands | Southwest in ancient times, ind for the famous. terraced vil- | lage of the Bon ns. Mules, hors and other beasts of burden were un- | known in the Americas before th arrival of the Spaniards early in the Lower Trade Unit Aids Small Cotton’ Growers Chicago, Aug. 6. (F)- give th small southwestern c 1 merchant Southwestern interests advocating he chunge said that the grain rais- r was able to hedge his stock with a chance protect | a smaller monetar: 3 th, msclf on the price of his one|the cotton farmer, and t 11 carload of cotton, the Chicago [tion of the fifty bale contract has rd of Trade has voled to cut|solved the problem, cotten men rer ; 7 | from 100 to 50 bales, the lmdng unit on the cotton exchange here. | n | tracts have been larger than those adop- | valued at more than $400,000, have been purchased by fifty cotton men, mostly in the southwest, since crea- tion of this futures exchange, The Chicago cotton market, ss-! tablished more than a year ago by the Board of Trade, has grown’ steadily. During recent weeks, the deliveries of cotton on Chicago con- Toronto, the capital of _Ontario has this year increased its popula- tion more than 7,000, the total now being 549,429, of either of the other two older ex- changes. Memberships in the ‘exchange, SPECIALS FOR TO-MORROW SATURDAY OUR WAREHOUSE REMOVAL SALE WAS AN OUTSTANDING EVENT~— |ceremonies eagle, snake, corn and mustard,” Dr. |of prayer plumes. But 1 insisted the en all the races of mankind, the [1ath century. Marco de AND A HUGE SUCCESS—WE TAKE THIS MEANS OF THANKING THE Yet Fray Judd writes in a report to the Na- tlon Geographic soclety. “Of all these clans none has a larger or more vigorous membership than the Macaw peonle. The Macaw clan has turnished a majority of the leading men at Zuni for several generations past. But these leaders knew the macaw, thelr clan totem, only macaw was a gift to the entire|bird, animals and trees spoke a |Niza, as he jouraeyed northward out :u.‘." FOR THEIR Pg‘r?ofi?o!‘""o CEMENTS FOR PEOPLE TO clan and not a personal remem-|common language. Macaw clans are [of Mexico in 163. to the discovery ERE~-ARE A PEW OF T 81 v " [ 1 brance tq a single friend. It was my [to be found in some of the other |of the ‘Seven Cities of Cibola,’ notes BUY DURING THI$S HOT WEATHER = READ ~ AND PROFIT THEREBY expressed opinion that the Sun Pueblo villages of New Mexico and |in his journal that he passed Mex- Priest, as highest officlal of the|Arizona. But in no instance, so far [ican Indians returning with tur- clan, should receive the bird and act [as T am aware, can cne learn defin- |quoise they had obtained in ex- as its custodlan. 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