The Coconino sun., 1921-09-02

Indian village, and transportation
 prices went down with rush.
 Those who did see the dance saw
 something. Major General Scott, Jimmie Swinnerton, Governor Camp bell and others from every state in the union and representing pretty much every walk of like and most of them wearing very effective mud dis guises, got plenty of thrills. MT. Walker says of the dance:
 The Indians started off by dancing around, each in turn stamping on a plank lying over a hole in the ground. This to remind their ancestors and the gods that old customs were not for gotten and that the present genera ton still holds fast to the faith. Then a little shaver began handing snakes to an old man, who in turn passed them on to the dancers, who worked in pairs, one to hold the snake, the other to tickle the snake with a fea- ther to keep him from biting the man carrying him. There were about 50 snakes, of every kind, but mostly rat tires. The first snake out was rat tiers. The first snake out was rat drew him slowed him in his mouth, only the head sticking out. One of the snakes was giant bullsnake. He was so big that the buck who drew him couldn't get segment into his mouth. The snake coiled around the mans neck and began to choke him. Before the Indian got the best of it he had bitten is snakeship almost in two. Another rattler, monster, bit his Indian in the cheek. The latter jerked his head to one side, throwing the snake twenty feet away. One of the dancers crowded close to the In- dian ahead, and the latter got set of poison fangs in his back. There were three Indians bitten in the face and several on other parts of their anatomy.
 The dance over, the snakes were cast in heap, where lot of meal had been pressed down, with two lines drawn clear across it at right angles, pointing toward the four cardinal points of the compass. Then the snakes were grabbed up by armsful, by Indians who carried them to the east, the west, the north and the south and dropped them over the edge of the mesa to while away their time as they pleased and, perchance, be caught again next year.
 Then off came the beads, the eagle feathers, the coyote hides, the various other ornaments with which each dancer was covered except where he wanted the paint to show, and women washed the dancers down and gave each big bowl of the antidote. Each dancer gulped down his portion of the black mixture. then promptly stepped to the edge of the mesa and vomited and nightly out into the void.
 Any unwary wayfarer who had hap pened on the afternoon of last Thurs day to be climbing up the mesa in time to be showered first with snakes and then with the spouting antidote would, most truthfully and exactly speaking, have been long way out of luck.
 Miss Edison, of New York, was at the dance, dressed entirely in Indian dance costume. She had been buying costumes by the wholesale, to staging the dance in the metropolis. She also noted down the words and notes of the chants.
 On Friday came the butterfly dance, the most beautiful dance of all. But only few remained.
 The Indians at Oraibi, Walpi and the surrounding villages, made pretty good wages, taking everything into Some of them almost reached the capitalistic class hauling stranded cars.
 The floods were very good thing for Hotevilla, the village where the hostile" Hopis live. The middle of the street being the public toilet, and there not having been any rain for many moons, flood was pretty near ly a necessity.
 Hotevilla is about 15 years old. J. F. Anderson, superintendent of the ln- dian school there, has a strenuous time with his proteges, who are op-