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MOKES DANCE
TO PROPITIATE
GOD OF RAIN
Arizona Indians, Far Removed
From Civilization, Cling to
Ancestral Customs.
AS IN DAYS BEFORE COLUMBUS
Mokitand Is the Richest Part of the
Union for Prehistoric Exploration
—Medicine Man Determines
Date for Snake Dance.
Smithsonian archeologists say that
the most interesting aboriginal cere
monies performed nowadays In Amer
ica take place in midsummer days
among the Mold Indians, who live in
northeastern Arizona. Scarcely touch
ed by our civilization and clinging to
ancestral customs, 11. G. Tlnsey tells
the Dearborn Independent, the Mokls
perform during the Inst days of each
August dances and rites In propitia
tion of their god of rain, Identical
with those of their ancestors ages be
fore Columbus sailed from Spain.
Mokiland, or the province of Tusuy
an as the Spanish named it In the :
early part of the sixteenth century, Is
the richest part of the Union for pre- j
historic exploration. Cities of strong, ,
intelligent people flourished here in |
the time of the Caesars. Ruins of
heathen temples, which crumbled be- ;
fore the Montezuma dynasty began, i
lie among the drifting sands. The !
land of the Mokls abounds in an- j
dent traditions still kept In their j
pristine freshness.
Studying Mokls’ Customs.
This month two score of American
ethnologists und archeologists, besides
some from Europe, have gathered in
the Moki pueblos to study the cus- i
toms, habits, thought and traditions
of man in prehistoric America, as they
have come down through generations
of Molds,
Spanish ndventurers under Cor
onado reckoned In 1542 that there
were about 13,000 souls in the Tustiy
an confederacy of Moki tribes. Now
there are but a few hundred Mokls.
They are known also as liopis; und
their name signifies “peace loving.”
They have a tradition that several
hundred years ago the warlike
Apaches waged a terrific war against
die tribe. The remnant of die Molds
1 lied in terror and took refuge on die
! two great tablelands of red sandstone
1 which rise sheer some 70 feet out of
a vast sea of sand. The great rocky
; formation has been a veritable Gl
, braltar of defense to the tribe and from
! (be day die ancestral Mokls fled they
and their descendants have dwelt
there isolated. Rain Is the all-essen
tial element in the success of Moki
agriculture, and in the desert region
rains come capriciously.
The date of the Mold snake dance
is determined by an old medicine man
In tho tribe. When during August the
sun at its setting glints the sacred
rock that stands before the door of
the tribal kivu, die old medicine man,
Iloni, mounts the highest point ut
either Wulpi or Oraitii and solemnly
gives notice that 1(3 sunsets hence die
solemn snake ceremonies will take
place. He ends by invoking all to be- ,
gin immediate preparation fur the oc
casion. The women are to bake for
a tribal feast, to dress themselves and
llieir children in their best garments,
and die men are to perforin their sev
eral parts in the ceremonies.
A certain number of young men, ap
pointed for the purpose, start out at
next dawn to perform their part of
the preparation for the dance. They
are Jakulall (snake gatherers). They
room over the desert with a forked J
stick In one hand and a bag made of j
skins in the other. They know where
to look for rattlesnakes and some
timec they get more than 200 serpents
In a week. They plant the forks of
their sticks over the neck of the re
cumbent snake, and by an adroit move
ment throw the reptile into the bag.
The serpents are brought to the pueblo
and turned over to the old snake
priests.
The Preliminaries.
Six days after the ofticial announce
ment of the annual snake ceremonies,
mysterious rites among 27 of the fore
most men In the Moki trfbe begin in
a Chamber hewn Into the rock down be
low the pueblo. This is the kiva,
the holy of holies of Moki belief.
Dr. J. Walter Fewks of the Smithson
ian Institution is the only white person
who has ever entered the kiva, and he
says that die ceremonies there consist
in washing the serpents captured and
brought there by young men. The old
men engage In bnrbaric Incantations,
and chant appeals to the serpents to
bear messages of devotion and friend
ship to tho powers that rule the rain
clouds. The snake priests wear noth
ing to protect themselves from the rep
tiles’ fangs. Each day they wash the
rattlesnakes, sprinkle sacred comment
on tlm serpents’ heads, and deposit the
crealu es ir. jars. Meanwhile the Mok
house' Ive* took and hake in prepnra
lion for the event of the year—th
snake dance on the plaza of the pu
eblo. The gaudiest tribal finery i
brough' ferth and made ready. Whit
and Na -ajo Indian visitors comeacros
the desert to see the public ceremonle
and for it- week all Mokiland bustle
and bT to*.
At the setting of the sixteenth sut
fieri die official announcement by olu
floni the snake dance takes place. Late
In the afternoon the spectators arrange
themselves In vantage spots overlook
ing the plaza where the dance Is per
formed. Some 2,500 persons are gen
erally on hand to see the ancient mar
velous ceremony. The roofs of the
squat stone houses are crowded. Mu.:l
children with scarcely a stitch on them
sit. along the cornices with their brown
legs hanging down. There are cow
boys from all over the territory, report
ers from newspapers, scientists from
the cities, and hundreds of Indians in
brilliant and quaint costumes. It Is
a rare scene; “one fit for a salon pic
ture,” said an enthusiastic arllst. The
white people laugh, the dogs and chil
dren make tumult, while every one
awaits the opening of the dance. At
Just about six o’clock, when the sun
Is dropped into the yellow desert
away to the west, some one calls:
“Here they come.” Instantly there Is
silence. Everybody knows that the
antelo; > men—young athletic snake
dnneers —nre at last Issuing from their
stone chambers. The braves are
scantily clad, and on each leg Is a
small terrapin shell, In which nre
placed small pebbles, which rattle as
the wnrrior moves, and make of him,
In sound at least, a human rattler.
The dancers nre smeared with red,
white and black paints. Around cr.eh
brow is bound a flaming handkerchief,
(lie upper forehead being painted n
deep black, and the lower half with
black and white bands.
Live Snakes In Their Mouths.
The band forms in a circle and a
sack of serpents Is brought forth and
is placed lit tlie branches of a collon-
I wood shrill) known as the kisi Just
i where It lias stood on Moki dance
| days for countless generations. A
chief, hideously painted, opens the
| sack and as each brave inarches past
j thrusts his naked arm within and jerks
I from it several writhing serpents,
I which he hands to the buck. The
| snake dancer bends and seizes the
j snakes by their middle with ilia teeth,
j while he holds one or two serpents In
; each hand. The serpents rattle, hiss
and struggle while the human cap
: tors, gesticulating and stamping, join
In a solemn rhythmic movement. In
1 which, after each man has been sup
plied with serpents, the whole hand Is
soon participating.
The Moki women and the several
hundred Moki bucks who do not par
ticipate In the dancing at first sit in
mule awe. As the dance proceeds the
red-skinned spectators start a low hum
ming, which gradually develops. !.nail
er and louder rises the din of dis
cordnnt voices until the women be
come wildly excited, and leap to
tlieir feet. Meanwhile tho dance goes
on. The dancers glisten with per
spiration and tho paint on their
bodies runs down their bare backs
and legs. Some of the older ones,
to show llieir prowess with venomous
reptiles, carry three and five rat
tlesnakes about with them. They
weave tho snakes about tlieir heads,
thoy coil thorn In huge halls and toss
them up and down; they twine them
about tlieir necks and luck them be
tween tht* belts of tlieir kilts and tlieir
nude waists, and carry them, held at'
tho middle, in tlieir mouths. All this
time limy are hopping about the sun
baked plaza. Now they circle about
the kisi with their burden of serpents
in their hands. Then at a signal hy
oid Kopali, the snake'chief, tho danc
ers form in threes, and with the snakes
wriggling fnr freedom in their hands,
they march backward ami forward.
Another signal and they form In a row
and loss the serpents to and fro. Then
the dance starts anew. More circling,
, marchings ami counter-marchings in
ones, twos and threes. Occasionally a
reptile wriggles itself loose from an
Indian’s hand. It is, however, Instnnt-
I ly picked up like so much rubber hose.
An Hour of Horror.
The snake dance lasts about fifty
minutes. At Its close (lie Indian spec
tators have risen to tlieir feet, and are
weaving their arms and bodies back
and forth in time to the rapid chorus
j they are shouting over and over again.
| The dancers are dripping with per
j spirntion. The while visitors nre dazed
at the incredible scene. No one who
lias not seen It would believe these
men can be so thoroughly Indifferent to
the serpent’s venom. Several of the
dancers reel and stagger, hut catch
themselves as they gyrate with tl-.e
tangled snarl of serpents in tlieir
hands.
Suddenly at a signal from wrinkled
Kopali the dancing ceases and the high
snake priest advances to an open
place. He solemnly sprinkles meal in
a ring, denoting all compass points to
which serpent messengers are to con
vey the Moki petitions. At another
signal the rattlesnakes are thrown In a
heap within the circle. Meal is hastily
thrown upon the wriggling heap, while
a guttural Invocation Is pronounced. In
a moment each of the dancers snatches
several of the serpents in his hands,
and starts at full speed for the narrow
trail which leads down from the mesa
to the plains below. There tile grue
some burdens nre thrown upou the
sands and permitted to go their way
in peace.
The dunce is over, but there’s anoth
er scene. When the athletic dancers
have come running hack to the plaza
they hasten to the sacred kiva, where
they remove nil the trappings of the
ceremony. Then they come out mid
drink deeply from a bowl of mysteri
ous devotion of herbs brewed only by
Snlnko, tho oldest snake woman in
Mokiland.
Then the Mokls go home In silence.
They Imve performed the most Impor
tant service in their lives and have
propitiated the rain god ns sacredly us
they know how. Their wives xnd
sweethearts wait upon them and wash
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