NOTES ON ACOMA AND LAGUNA
1918; Wiley; Volume: 20; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1525/aa.1918.20.2.02a00020
ISSN1548-1433
Autores Tópico(s)Archaeology and Natural History
ResumoTHE following notes are the result of brief visits to Acoma and Laguna in January, 1917. The notes are fragmentary not only because of the shortness of my stay but because, in the case of Acoma at least, I had to contend against extreme distrust of Whites. Although my introduction was of the best (I was.with Zunii who had connections in Acoma) and although I was most hospitably entertained by the Acoma household who took us in and who kept me on after my Zufii friends left, I was unable to overcome the distrust altogether and much of my time was squandered in merely trying to differentiate myself from the picturetaking tourist or from the Washington representative from whom every ceremonial or intimate detail of life is to be hidden. The cacique to whom I had taken a present of tobacco broke off in the middle of a folk tale, for example, to get my assurance that I would not send the tale to Washington. Rather than have had me witness the masked dance (parrot dance?) they had planned for the day after that set for my departure I more than suspect they would have changed their program. In fact when I said I was going to stay they told me the dance was off. No Whites are allowed at present to see the masked dances either at Acoma or Laguna, dances held, mind you, not in an estufa or ceremonial room but out in the plaza. The dance I did see in Acoma was maskless and, as a Zufii critic would say, very unfinished. It was given on January 27 and 28 to celebrate the installation of the officers-the tapup or tapopo (governor), the two tenientes,' the three war chiefs (tsatiohucha) (piscal, Mex.; sheriff, Amer.) and their two cusinero (cooks).
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