The marvellous country, or, Three years in Arizona and New Mexico.: Containing an authentic history of this wonderful country and its ancient civilization ... together with a full and complete history of the Apache tribe of Indians .../ By Samuel Woodworth Cozzens. Illustrated by more than one hundred engravings.

THEIR DANCES.
ties become dissatisfied, when the marriage between them is
dissolved by a joint declaration to that effect, made before
the cacique. Should there be children, the respective grandparents are expected to provide for them.
The women are never permitted to join in any of their
dances; the place that would naturally seem to belong to
them being filled by young men dressed to represent them.
The faces of the dancers are always covered by a mask
made of small willow twigs peeled and curiously interwoven
together. Those worn by the men are colored a dark brown,
while those worn by the supposed women are painted a
bright yellow.
Each house has its patron saint represented by an ugly
little Aztec image, made of wood or clay, gaudily painted
and gorgeously decorated with feathers. These images are
suspended by a strilng from the rafters of their houses, and
are supposed to exert a great influence for weal or woe over
its inmates.
Every village has an estufa underground, or, more properly, a council-chamber, which is used as a public room;
here the people are wont to congregate, to sit and smoke
and talk over the affairs of the nation. The only light or
air is obtained from a scuttle in the roof, which also serves
as a door.
From all that I saw or could learn of the Moquis, I came
to the conclusion that they were a most simple. moral,
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