Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 89, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1929 — Page 9

:AUG. 23, 1929

WEIRD INDIAN SNAKE RITES DRAWTHRONGS 2,500 White Persons Are Expected to Witness Sacred Ceremony. Pv United Press WINSLOW. Ariz., Aug. 23.—A strange cavalcade wound its way northward across the Painted Desert Thursday. Bound for Walpi. fifteen miles from here, a group of writers, scientists and tourists, traveling" in automobile*. W’ere looking forward to witnessing the weird rites of the snake dance performed by the Hopi Indians, which is to occur today at sunset. It is a scene repeated each August when news of the date of the strangest of all North American tribes’ religious ceremonial becomes known. Annually, the number of white persons journeying to Walpi is increasing and this year, 2,500 are expected to witness the sacred dances In which writhing rattlesnakes play an important part. Dance With Reptiles The dance will be a climax ©f five days of ceremonials in which Hopis call upon the gods of rain for moisture to insure bountiful crops. Antelope and snake priests of two elans of Hopi tribe are the central figures in the rites. The sacred water and cornmeal and the sacred pipe, the smoke of which is supposed to ascend to the heavens to release the rain, all play an important part in the ceremonial, but the dance of the priests with an armful of live reptiles proves the most fascinating to white spectators. Hop! Tribe Is Friendly The final stages of the rites is when the priests dance away from the altar, where chanting and praying has been going .on since sunrise five days before, carrying the rattlesnakes, which then are released on the summit of what is known as "Second Mesa.” The following three days are given over to merrymaking and feasting. For decades the Hopi Tribe has permitted the white man to view the most significant of all religious rites, for the Hopis were among the earliest friendly Indians when the whites came into the west. Walpi is the heart of a vast territory where few forms of white civilization have reached. There are scattered missions and trading posts where the government Indian agents carry the white man’s law.

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‘GOLD BRICKS’ USED IN GARAGE BUILDING Objects in Famous $3,750 Swindle Adorn New Structure. Bu United Press KNOXVILLE. Tenn., Aug. 23. The Prior Brown garage is the new home of the famous ‘‘gold bricks” which will never be sold again—unless they are removed from the new structure. The bricks once sold for $3,750 in a genuine “gold brick” swindle. As the story goes, Henry Davenport purchased the bricks back in the eighties, when a stranger sold them to him in a wood behind the Davenport home. The stranger said they belonged to an Indian, whom Davenport was allowed to see from a distance. Prior Brown asked him for the “gold bricks” forty years ago. The bricks are twice the size of ordinary bricks and weigh seven pounds each. Part of the new Brown garage building is “gold.” ARRAIGN FEW ATHLETES Sound Mind in Sound Body Holds True in Court. Bu United Press CINCINNATI, 0.. Aug. 23.—Athletes seldom are arraigned in criminal courts, according to Judge Edw'ard Hurley, prominent jurist here. Said Judge Hurley: ‘‘l’ve noticed this fact in the number of persons brought before me. The answer seems to be that participation in clean athletics builds self-reliance and character. A sound body usually begets a sound mind.”

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