Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-02

history back into the misty traditions of mythical history. The Aztec gods, it is said revealed 1t to the Pueblo Indians.
 It took just one hour and half by my watch to render the dance poem. It was skiHfully, majestically, beautifully rendered. The dancers were both Mexicans and Pueblo Indians. The number performing was 12, not including the fair Lupeta Archuletta, representing the lovely bride, and the manly Francisco Gomez, personating the monarch lover, the great Montezuma The mother of the bride is Pueblo and the father Mexi- can. Our waiting and anxious beaux not infrequently think their fair dulciueas are a Ioag time preparing their toilets for extra occasions, but Cushing tells me the Zuni are full eight days preparing for the cochita dance. You see their time is not much more valuable than that of our average fashionable young lady. Then, too. they are very elab- orately dressed, paradoxically as 1t may seem, when not dressed at all. One can be much dressed with very light dress, as the Zuni and the fashionable lady at the ball each illus trates The Zuni may be naked to the waist and not even wear Cinderella slippers, and yet days may be spent in ornamenting, dec orating and painting the body and face. The wooing of Montezuma is danced by 12 chiefs. On the occasion referred to they emphatically mingled and blended the ancient and modern civilization in dress as we'll as in the general features of the dance. Some contemplating clothing merchant had presented them with & cheap pair of pantaloons and vest each. With these still retaining the salesman's card mark for ornament, calico shirt, Navajo ur.Z .Zuni blanket, 8 silk veil worn as a mask, and brand new cowhide shoes richly ornamented and highly decorated, the dan cers were arrayed. They had their attendants to arrange their endless amount of ribbons in bright colors, pendant from the head and shoulders. Their faces were highly painted, though masked.
 The monarch lover, Montezuma, was, of course, more gorgeously arrayed. His crown was particularly noticeable and gaudy. Each dancer carried red silk handkerchief, more conspicuous than Senator Thurman's, in each hand, the one in the right hand having few stones tied up in it, which with constant regular and monotonous movement kept tattling time with the music. They started from the annex, literally dancing time to the music that followed, consisting of the violin and guitar played by Mexicans, out to the arena. Here the dance was given. Hundreds of people crowded around the low fence that inclosed the arena. Other hundreds looked on from the roofs of the state-house and ad. joining buildings The arena was spacious and gave full advantage to the dancers to do their best. The witches and ghosts in the old churchyard danced with no more zeal and fury for Tam O'Shanter than did the Zun1 for their large audience. Dancing around the May pole concludes the ceremony. Each of the twelve chiefs holds one ofthe long rib bons attached to the pole and they dance around the pole until the ribbons are thoroughly twisted. Then the dancing is reversed and the ribbons untwisted. When this was done they asked the crowd, through the interpreter, if the pole was well twisted and the work was well done and we all clapL ed our hands and the Zuni's cup of glory was full and running over. I forgot to mention that the lovely bride of Montezuma, Lupeta Archuletia, the fair Maliwehe, was dressed in a beautiful white dress, latest style and very expensive. Her head was or namented. She wore pair of new shoes of reasonably good material. With so much civilization fixings old Montezuma would hardly have recognized his bride. She car ried the two brilliant silk handkerehiefs in the same way as the men.