The herald., 1894-08-26

the braves with the rods and bows anA
arrows, together with the aquaws, follow.
ing. He stops them and addresses them,
and advances again until the end OF the
run is reached. when they turn. An
opening has been made through the
crowd at the east side OF the house Of
mourning. At q signal they dash back
and run around the house, amid louder
wais and yells than before. and return
to the starting paint. Here they rest
moment, to repeat again tbs came move
ment. Slowly outward they move to 70.
turn ngain like fash.
With the break of day large bundles
of dry branches are brought in and pile
ia made OF them near the house and
starting point. As the morning star
shows itself over the eastern range fires,
at q signal, are applied to the pile and to
the building. The mourners rush out, and
the spirit chasers, with more noise and
swifter pace, dash down toward the now
rapidly burning structure. Around IL
they 60. yelling and brandishing their
rods, and as they come to the small pile
of burning fsgots near the house they
encircle it and, with q yell, cast the
rods, feathers. bows and eli into the
flames, and with parting yell they run
plunge into the swift flowing stream.
The dancing mourners then walk slowly
around sne fire, and cast in beads, hand
kerchiefs, feathers, etc., and they in
turn file away toward the river.
The chief mourners or criers have not
been idle. Neither have the medicine
men. They have been walking around
among the throng, talking, gesticulat-
ing and haranguing, until the crowd are
worked up to frenzy. The fire is now
at its height, and shows one the fret
good view that has besn had OF the
crowd, who are now at the stage of en-
thusissm that they will give up all they
have to the flames as sacrifice. Their
clothes are committed to the fire, and 90
eager are they that they do not stop to
unbutton or unpin their garments, but
tear them off and cast them in, not only
their outer garments, but everything
except the breech -clout, and many of
them did not even have that on when
they finished. 1t did not take them
long to make their offerings. and
then the chief criers and mourners
walked around the fire and away to the
river and the pow-wow WAS over.
The pow-wow did not wind up with .
feast, as has been formerly the custom,
the chiefs having been induced to aban-
don the slaughter of horses.
NOTES AND INCIDENTS.
Among the chiefs and visitors from
other tribes present were the following:
Caief Charlie, Chief Sherum and Capt.
Lsvy.levy, OF the Hualapais; Chief Asu-
kita, from Fort Mojsve, and Chiefs
Hooksrow and t-a-hera from
Parker reservation, OF the Molaves;
A-hat-a.huey, of the Maricopas; Qaas-a.
ANA, of the Yumas.
The Mojave, like his psleface brother,
was feeling the effect of the hard times,
and the numerous booths that were
erected to supply food and 10. Il. 7. re-
freshments, did not do very lucrative
trade.
Occasionally a copper-colored dude,
dressed in sill the hnery that he could
command for the occasion. consisting of
navy blue pants, and vest to match.
white knit cotton uncershirt that had
been specially decorated for the purpose
with fanciful designs painted on with
diamond dyes and done while the shirt
WAS on the wearer, with streamers of red
flannel fastened at both wrist and elbow,
bright green silk handkerchief tied
around the waist, an immense string OF
beads around the neck and perhaps an
orange colored silk handkerchief around
his head, with the brightest pigments
laid on his face in small triangular
figures, the colors alternating from
forehead to chin, would slip around and
make love to one OF the native daugh-
ters of the Golden West, dressed in q
bright red flannel skirt with founoe
covered with white braided geomstrical
designs and q takuma or square OF the
came material, or OF four handkerchief
sewed together, thrown around her
shoulders and held with a nickle-plated
safetv-pin, hair Ia mode. and strings
of beads around her neck and wristleta
OF the same, but, as a rule, no paint ON
her face. Perhaps she wore small bells,
fastened out OF sight. but which jingled
as she walked. And they would cast
glauces at each other and he would in
vite her to have glass of lemonade at
one OF the booths. And the course OF
love runs along with them pretty much
as it does everywhere.
The old bucks and squaws as they
squatted on the ground and were served
by the walters at the lunch booths, had
many remarks to make as to whether
the pies and cakes we're "ahote" or not.
To judge by the way the viends disap-
peared they were "ahotews."
The Mojave females are not without
sense of modesty. One may OCCASION
ally see boy entirely nude, but the
girls always wear a shirt.
The Hualapais drove quite trade in
eagle plumes.