Identifier: arizonawonderla00jame (find matches)
Title: Arizona, the wonderland; the history of its ancient cliff and cave dwellings, ruined pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards, Jesuit and Franciscan missions, trail makers and Indians; a survey of its climate, scenic marvels, topography, deserts, mountains, rivers and valleys; a review of its industries; an account of its influence on art, literature and science; and some reference to what it offers of delight to the automobilist, sportsman, pleasure and health seeker. By George Wharton James. With a map and sixty plates, of which twelve are in colour
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
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Publisher: Boston Page company
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ing by an evenmore wonderful route via Kayenta, a few miles fromwhich are the stupendous cliff-dwellings of Betatakin andKitsiel and thence to Tuba City,— the seven villages ofthe Hopis will be reached, where these People of Peacehave long dwelt, carrying on their quaint and startlingceremonies that Americans are now beginning to appreci-ate. The Snake Dance is already quite well known, butthere are a score of other beautiful, quaint, archaic andsurprising dances, with which a lore is connected as elabo-rate as the mythology of Greeks, Romans and Norsemencombined. The pantheon of their gods too, comprisesas many gods and lesser divinities, as these three coun-tries of ancient days. In their home life they are noless interesting. To see the women build the houseswhile the men sit and look on, or, perhaps, fill up thetime by knitting the soleless stockings for the family;to witness them at work in their pathetic little corn-fields; to hear them singing in concerted unison as they ..J;
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The Wonder Circuit 147 grind their corn on the primitive mills, or metates, of athousand years ago; to hear the mothers instructingtheir daughters in the duties of wife- and mother-hoodas they fix up their hair in the peculiar fashion forwhich they are noted; or to hear father or mother, eldersister or brother telling the children of their vast num-ber of greater and lesser divinities, using for that pur-pose the tihus, or dolls, of which they have over threehundred different varieties; to see the women make theirbaskets covered with striking geometrical designs, orpaint their pottery with quaint and archaic symbols;these and a score, a hundred other fascinating events,occupy ones attention while with these primitive dwell-ers upon the high mesas of the Painted Desert. Perhaps, if one of the shamans or women of the Oldwere in the mood, or were persuaded, one might havethe opportunity of listening to the story, elsewhere toldin these pages, of the storming of Awatobi and theslaughter o

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