Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-11-12
GREAT THRONG At
BUFFALO DANCE
Santa Fe Is Well Represent
ed at the Red Mans
Thanksgiving
HORSES WERE AT PREMIUM
And Motor Cars Had to Be
Pressed Into Service to Take
Out Visitors.


Clothed in the skins of wild beasts,
their arms and legs painted in truly
barbaric splendor, carrying bows and
arrows in preparation for a mock
hunting expedition, the Indians Of Te-
suque this afternoon were the Gym
osure of many eyes of pale faces turn
ed upon them in awe as the red men
whirled around and patted their gra-
ceful feet in perfect rhythm to a bar
barous tune.
1t was the celebration of the feast
of San Diego in the morning and the
celebration of bountiful harvest In
the afternoon that the Indians held
and to those who there witnessed such
ceremonies for the first time 1t was
an experience more or less thrilling.
The dance is popularity known as
the Buffalo dance, and the huge heads
of the buffalo were in evidence. car
ried on the heads of Indians fulfil
ling that role. The skins of other
animals assisted many Indians to play
other roles in the strange, long drawn
out drama enacted.
The Indian, like his pale faced com
panero" is grateful at this season of
the year for many things But he
does not celebrate it with eating tur-
key but rather in pretending to slay
turkeys, and other game. The dance
should give one an idea Oh the happy
hunting ground days-before the
game laws fettered the red mans
powerful right hand used to hurl a
1aYelin or shoot an arrow with death
dealing certainty. In those days there
was no limit to the amount of deer
that could be brought to bay, no num-
Der set on the head of buffaloes that
could be taken. And so today In ce.
remony the Indian. recalls the happy
hunting period. and at the same time
turns his head to the Great King of
Day, prayerfully grateful for what
still remains, a fertile soil and mar
Set for its products.
Santa Fe There.
The dance was thrilling and well
might it be for there was the fnspira.
tion in numbers, afforded by the yisi-
tors Santa Fe sent to the scene. From
early morn until noon, the road to Te-
suque presented pilgrimage" as
poets. Wagons and carriages, saddle
horse and automobiles-every means
of assisting locomotion were seen
and heard. Equestrians and eques-
trlennes were particularly prominent
and their handsome appearance in rid
ing boots and dashing hats ought
to have pleased the Indians whose
dance was the lodestone that at.
tracted these visitors from far and
near.
The sophomores and the juniors of
the high school left in wagons for the
scene at $50 a. m. and the fifth and
sixth grades went in wagons also,
with Miss Kaune and Miss Hayward
as chaperones.
Another party going in autos was
that of Territorial Secretary Jaffa
and Mrs. Jaffa, Mr.. and Mrs. F. C. Will
son, Delegate and Mrs. G. w. Baker,
Land Commissioner r. P. Ervien and
Mrs. Ervien. Owen Wood took the
Sunday class to Tesuque in Tallyho
The Rev. James Grattan Mythen
took the boy scouts to Tesuque. and
they are having the time of their lives
Hon. William Bayard Cutting also
had an automobile party which start
ed for the dance shortly before noon.
making the trip in a motor car.
Miss Jouett Fall also had an auto
party which left this morning to Te-
suque. Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Fall did
not accompany them as they went for
Three Rivers today.
H. G. Drum, one of the sporting edi-
tors of the Chicago Record-Herald ar
rived in the city today and expressed
the wish to see the dance but as he
was with the party representing the
Touring Club of America and had to
hurry on to the coast, he was unable
to spare the time for the trip. He
will notice 1t however in his accounts
to his paper.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. v. Kidder of Bos-
ton and Mr.. and Mrs. Sylvanus G..
Morley of this city made the trip on
horseback. Mrs. Kidder is one of the
most accomplished equestriennes of
the east and both she and Mr.. Kidder
attracted much attention as they rode
into the pueblo.