New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 2, 1928, Page 2

TOUN FESTIVAL . SHNE S OF D ‘uw Unchanged Dur- ing Ceataries Washington, Nov, 2. UP—The au- tumn festival of the Taos Indians | who have retained their highly de- veloped primitive culture through many centuries in the mountains of netthern New Mexico, is deacribed by J. P. Harrington of the bureau of American ethnology as one of the most picturesque and significant cer- emonies he has witnessed in his long study of American aborigines. The ceremonies, consisting prin- cipally of symbolic dances preserv- .ed in great purity through countless generations by this tall race of proud, ‘comservative Indians, annually attract & large number of scientists, artists and tourists to the ancient pueblo viflage which the Taos have guarded suecessfully against the enroach- ments of white civilization. Thg dancing, Mr. Harrington ex- plains, is the expression of a pray- er. that the boon of rain may be granted and the road of life may be long and lucky. Beginning in ,the evening of September 29, it con- .tinues throughout the following day. This year the prayer was answered promptly with & heavy thundershow- er while the dancing was in progress, ‘The dancing is performed in the ‘public square of the village between the two communal gdobe houses, Both these dwellings were original- ly tive stories high, five being & mag- ic number among these Indians just @8 it §s among the Chinese and cor- 'responding to the magical number ‘three of the white civilization. Ono ‘of the pueblos retains all of its five 'stories, but the two upper tiers of thie second have fallen away. On' Beptember 80 the dancing starts at 9 a. m. and continues un- I noon, when the dancers all run for the creek and bathe. After noon the chifonetes, a group of trained rit- uf) dancers, come out and usurp the program. “These,” Mr. Harrington explains, #Bersonify the kind of beings who ‘were met coming from the sun when ¢he Taos Indians were still migrating ‘south in search of their present home thousands of years ago. They have ‘their bodies all painted with hori- sontal stripes of alternating white ‘and black, and their hair tide up up with corn husks. “The chifonetes make believe they are hunting in the mountains, look- 'discovering a tall greased pole, &t ‘the top of which, suspended from ‘two small cross bars, is an entire ‘sheep, freshly slaughtered, er they scale the heights and bag their e, “The Indian name of Taos is “The Red Willows” and it is, in their doc- trine, the chosen land and center of the earth. Their ancestors for cen- turies belleved that a place appropri- ate for them would be prepared by | the unscen forces of the world, but At was not ordained that they should Jmigrate from the far north directly te: it. Instead, they had to travel. ‘broken into small bands, by circul- #%ous routes, building many pueblos it other sites and living in them ‘sometimes for 10 or 20 generations before the urge for the appropri- Ate place made them pack up house- Beld goods and gods and hit the trail ltor & new aite. ! “*The first people that came into (e chosen land were few in num- :hr. but thelr medicine men imme- \diately perceived the hidden truth ‘that that was the place. One by b t 300 MAIN ST. 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David Rhea daily looked down on the courthouse square to the spot where 8am Davis, boy hero of the Confederate armies, went to his death on a scaffold because he would not reveal from whom he had obtained valuable federal se- crets. Stimulated by the boy's heroic sacrifice, Rhea worked out a play| which mingled a hazily recorded | love affair with the well establis] ed record of Iavis' military career, ended before he was 21. When the play was produced.’ authentic costumes of the period. Confederate and Federal uniforms | OLD METEORITE i H taken from a museum, the sword | Tucson, Ariz., Oct. Nov. 2.—~UP— i used by Sam Davis and the mana- cles which clasped his hands, added to the literary qualities of the pro-, duction. ' {Iron-like lumps found while excavat- |ing Elden Ruin, five miles east of ' Flagstaff, are declared by E. 8. | Heineman, geologist, of the Arizona | bureau of mines, to be fragments of a meteorite which may have fallen a thousand years ago. 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